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...various symptoms Andropov displayed during his last appearances in public in mid-August?trembling hands, uneven gait, difficulty in getting out of his chair???were caused by muscle weakness brought on by diabetes and the kidney problems. The stiffness that observers detected in the Soviet leader's left arm was due to the repeated use of that arm for dialysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: Putting the Rumors to Rest | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

Brumus is still in residence. Visitors are welcomed by the same assault wave of small Kennedys tumbling happily down the red-carpeted stairway virtually into their arms. There is always an extra bed in one of the 19 rooms for an unexpected guest, just as there is always another chair???or two or three?at the table. When someone turns up, a few positions are shifted, and the visitor finds himself sitting next to Ted Kennedy, onetime Football Great Roosevelt Grier, Supreme Court Justice Byron ("Whizzer") White, Actress Lauren Bacall?or perhaps a trio of civil rights workers from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 25, 1969 | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...Follette, lecturer on law at the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Oct. 22). It is in this son rather than in his older brother, "Young Bob," the present Senator, that the father is still visible. It was in a gesture of Son Philip's?quickly gripping the arms of his chair???that Sculptor Davidson found the final and finishing accent for the statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: La Follette in Marble | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...John F. Hylan sat in the Mayor's chair???Hylan, onetime motorman on the L, which has its terminus across the square from the City Hall; Hylan, dubbed "Red Mike," with his red hair only partly dimmed from sitting several years on a Judge's bench; Hylan, whom all dailies except the Hearst papers made the butt of jokes and the target of civic invective; Hylan, from Brooklyn, who was never a Tammany man although Tammany helped him to the mayoralty twice for a total of eight years; Hylan, who himself declared that he was persecuted by the traction "interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: In New York | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

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