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I had seen the neonatal intensive-care units, big, immaculate rooms with stainless-steel-and-glass machines called Ohio beds, which cradled the premature infants. They were miniature people whose arms bristled with a series of tubes and needles going to a bank of computer screens and monitors. In a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Family's Decision | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

Ever since he beheld her curly head in an Independence, Mo., Sunday school one morning in 1890, when he was six and she was five, Harry Truman remained devoted to his beloved Bess. As a young dirt farmer in nearby Grandview, he courted her by mail, weaving words of affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truman: I Gave Them an Earful | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Although she was furious at Reagan's aides, who, she complained to associates, did not have the courage to ask her to quit, Burford remained steadfastly loyal to the President. "I love that guy," she said, "and I'd be proud to serve him any place." The affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Exit of Necessity, with Dignity: Anne Burford leaves the EPA | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

""A lover of my fellow creatures, a mere nameless worker for the cause-I aspire to be no more. In none of the textbooks of socialism is human affection expressly forbidden.'

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Excerpt | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

'Is,' asks Vol, 'human affection part of the substructure or of the superstructure?'

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Excerpt | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

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