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Whatever he's done in the last two months has failed. Trying to stay high and dry above ths slush lost him Iowa. Descending into it has been an excursion into ethnic cracks and racial slurs. Sixty-nine year old Reagan insists that he's not tired but his actions belie those claims...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi and William E. Mckibben, S | Title: Reagan: Reckless Over-confidence | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

Supremely competent as a businesswoman, working at nothing except building a powerful news machine, Katherine reflected no more deeply on the purpose of such an instrument than to want it to express her loyalty to the politicians toward whom she felt ppke a sister or a wife. Ths vulnerability and the sublimation of her feelings into intellectual, emotional, and political alliances, seemed to be a fundamental aspect of her widowhood...

Author: By Paul E. Hunt, | Title: Whipping The Post | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Carter, who publicly projects ths most populist image of any presidential candidate in recent memory, has gone about the task of assembling his cadre of policy advisors in an eclectic manner--and on such a large scale--that makes it difficult to tell which players will still be with the team if Carter wins the election...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Slow boat to Washington | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

Back in the Bottle. Many American scientists feel that the horrors of MIRV are so great that the U.S. should make a determined effort to stuff ths MIRV genie back in the bottle. The system was conceived primarily as a countermeasure to the Soviet ABM. By multiplying the number of warheads, the reasoning went, the U.S. would be able to penetrate Russian defenses. In addition, MIRV was regarded as a hedge against the huge Soviet SS-9s, which have the punch to destroy Minutemen even in their hardened silos. Laird's critics make the persuasive point that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SALT: A Sprinkling of Hope | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...taxonomists. The unsettling resemblance of bats to humans is readily apparent in many of the book's pictures. Such resemblances have overheated imaginations for centuries. Gargoyles, those batlike grotesqueries designed to draw off water and scare the devil from cathedrals in the Middle Ages, were undoubtedly inspired by ths real things that hung timidly in medieval spires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of the Belfry | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

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