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...mood could not have been more businesslike. The advance guard of as many as 500 Reaganites who were soon to be working on the transition checked into nine floors of a drab eleven-story M Street office building, where it found rooms sparsely furnished with gray metal desks. Doors bore hand-lettered signs identifying the functions of the people who would be occupying the offices (congressional liaison, agricultural task force) but not yet their names. In the seventh-floor mail room, nine volunteers sorted sacks of letters addressed to Reagan into 100-odd cubbyholes. The largest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New Team in Town | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...second half, though, Harvard came out a little quicker and a lot more confident. The new look bore concrete results at 25:30 into the half, as Captain Michael Smith put in the eventual game winner with an Andy Kronfeld assist...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Booters Beat Brown, 4-0, Showing Offensive Flurry | 11/1/1980 | See Source »

...moral detective story" into congressional investigations of Hollywood in the 1950s, would certainly have been a victim of the McCarthy era blacklists. His liberal credentials as a former editor of The New York Times and author of Kennedy Justice place him squarely in the "effete," "pinko" intellectual establishment that bore the brunt of McCarthy's character assassinations. Navasky knows this, and there is a bitter urgency about his reexamination of the '50s, whether he is writing persuasively in Naming Names or speaking quickly In a hotel bar. Here is a man who wants to prevent history from repeating itself, both...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: On Naming and Framing | 11/1/1980 | See Source »

...fresh ideas he has offered is small bore: creation of a "North American accord" to enhance relations among Mexico, Canada and the U.S. The suggestion implies some kind of European Community approach, but Reagan has not developed it. In fact, Reagan's thinking and staff work have been much more concentrated on domestic economic affairs. That is where the votes are next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Meet the Real Ronald Reagan | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

MacAusland's chat during intermission bore fruit 27 minutes into the second half, when Kate Martin took an Ann Velie pass, motored past a defender and dumped the ball into the Bowdoin...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Stickwomen Tame Bears | 10/9/1980 | See Source »

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