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...horrible smoke is all but gone now, there are water skiers in the Allegheny river on summer days, and you can see the sharp silhouette of red and gold dappled hills in the autumn...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: There Is No Joy in Mudville Today | 12/12/1980 | See Source »

...stroll across the Vanderbilt campus on an autumn afternoon is to see legends spring dazzling in the soft blue air-a little blurred, of course, as all good legends should be. Over there (nobody remembers quite where) Tate used to address a class of undergraduates. He was a severely handsome man who looked rather like a Confederate cavalry officer, and when he spoke of "the Republic of Letters," fond students could practically hear bugles blowing and see banners flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Tennessee: The Last Garden | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...descend on barren, burned-over hillsides and dry creek beds with no vegetation to slow the flow of the water. Homes that escaped the fires may yet succumb to the floods and mud slides that are as regular a feature of winter in Southern California as the fires of autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Winds of Autumn | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...Golden autumn sunlight dappled the. freshly whitened south portico of the White House, and a gardener steadily swept at the fallen leaves around the diplomatic entrance. At one minute before 2, the shrieking sirens of an official motorcade split the air, and quickly pomp and circumstance turned into slapstick comedy. The big black limousine pulled up smartly before the red-carpeted doorway. Out popped a beaming Ronald Reagan and his smiling wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Inspecting the Premises | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Fleet Street's old-fashioned rotary presses rolled off reams of front pages about the lithesome lass who seemed to have captured the Prince's heart. One photograph showed Diana posing in the bright autumn sunlight, nice legs plainly silhouetted through her diaphanous skirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Sport of Charlie Watching | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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