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...pair of carved swinging doors. "I can't remember if the spring- controlled hinge would have been on the top or the bottom in 1907," he says, scratching his head. But he does know that the doors, decorated with carved vines, leaves and grapes, will bring a buck in the showroom. "In New York City, art deco was last year," he says. "Now the decorators all want Louis XV Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous sort of stuff...
Ronald Reagan appeared to be standing on the threshold of a Buck Rogers future. In a Martin Marietta Corp. research plant outside Denver last week, the President stood before an 18-ft. partial mock-up of a chemical laser project that might one day be rocketed into space to zap Soviet nuclear missiles heading for the U.S. Reagan assured company engineers that the Strategic Defense Initiative, his space-based antimissile program, was "bounding forward" and that they were not working on a bargaining chip to be traded away in an arms deal...
Ronald Reagan has this fantasy in which he and Mikhail Gorbachev go into a White House room alone, the Soviet boss stripped of Kremlin apparatchiks. Accompanied by only an American interpreter, they talk about the world, their countries and themselves. Reagan would bet a cautious buck or two that they would reach a remarkable human understanding on how to ease tension around this overarmed and overheated globe. It will not happen, of course...
...Char Joslin, she will try to buck the proverbial sophomore jinx as more and more will be expected from the three-sport superstar...
...students chose to buck the trend, however. Several students said they planned to rent Winnebagos and Harvard shuttle buses for luxurious cruises to Eliville...