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...place then, more than 370 now) that were or could be targeted at Western Europe. The opening U.S. position was the "zero option": no U.S. deployment, scrapping of the entire Soviet SS-20 force. Later Reagan proposed an "interim solution": if the Soviets would reduce the number of SS-20s, the U.S. would deploy fewer than 572 missiles, but still match the remaining SS-20s warhead for warhead. Moscow offered varying reductions in the number of SS-20s, if the U.S. would cancel its entire deployment. One proposal was to cut back to 162 Soviet missiles, matching the number...
With his private validity, Bailey is a forerunner of Kennedy's later outsider heroes: the romantic Legs Diamond roaring confidently through the '20s, gun in hand; Billy Phelan conquering Albany with bowling ball and pool cue; and Phelan's father, Francis, a tormented bum stripped of everything except his will to endure...
...bird, it's a plane, it's (Can you see it coming?) Superman in a plane. Christopher Reeve, 32, who soared to fame as the Man of Steel, is starring next in The Aviator as a rugged, '20s mail pilot. His plane crashes, and Reeve is marooned on a mountain with the companion able Rosanna Arquette. Reeve, an experienced pilot who has soloed across the Atlantic, did all his own flying in the film, a claim he cannot make about his earlier aerial incarnation...
...remained an exclusive possession of the rich, an ideal object of conspicuous consumption, a perfect excuse for a dashing new wardrobe of matching goggles, cap and scarf. But in 1913 a mechanic named Henry Ford began turning out Model Ts on his newfangled assembly line. By the mid-'20s Ford was producing a car every ten seconds. Price: as low as $265. Mobility was suddenly within reach of the average family, and an egalitarian society was no longer some impossible ideal. Automobile ownership, reported Robert and Helen Lynd in Middletown, soon became "an accepted essential of normal living." Even...
...early '20s Le Corbusier, with his drawings of a Contemporary City for Three Million People, proposed a massive urban complex built to accommodate the automobile in, around and out of high-rises. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, visitors to the seductive General Motors pavilion rode in moving chairs through a 1,700-ft. display of vast expressways designed to effortlessly handle the projected traffic flow...