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...Washington, President Reagan praised the launch, saying the shuttle was "headed into orbit and America is back in space." He saluted the bravery of the crew and added, "We ask God to bless this important voyage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discovery Lifts Off In Flawless Launch | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

...needs it? In parliamentary systems, when a party leader faces election, he generally makes known his Cabinet or shadow cabinet. In America the party leader calls his wife and kids and movie-star cousin to join him on the podium and bless the assembled. How much more democratic it would be if a nominee called up to the podium not his grandchildren but, say, his Secretary of State and Attorney General. Leave Dad and Sis and everyone else you call by first name at home. If you must, do like the ballplayers: give Mom a TV wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Spare Us the Family Album | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...sits on the sidewalk as hundreds of Republicans pass, his can of change held high. "I'm homeless and hungry--anything would help God bless us," his sign says. He's got a Bible with him, but it hasn't helped increase donations. One passerby asks him if he's considered working instead of begging. "It's kind of hard. First of all I'm crippled and I have only one eye," he explains as the questioner tosses him a quarter...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Grand Old Party Parties | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...Helms. A bulky 6 ft. 2 in., he has a jowly, owlish face; his sparse white hair is slicked back, and his eyebrows, frozen like question marks above his eyes, seem to ask, "Who me, cause a fuss?" A sometime Sunday-school teacher, he is fond of saying, "Well, bless your heart," his voice a velvet bass carried by a Carolina drawl. But in an instant, a glint appears in his eye as he hatches yet another plan to tie the Senate in knots. Meet the other Jesse Helms, the wily parliamentary terrorist who has blocked civil rights legislation, held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JESSE HELMS: Scourge of the Senate | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...wish a happy 100th birthday to Irving Berlin. This week everybody's doin' it -- celebrating the boy born Israel Baline in Russia a century ago, who came to the U.S., reached for the moon and found that there's no business like show business. God bless America: Berlin's songs are his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: So, Here's to You, Irving Berlin! | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

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