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How lovely the going will be in the new plane for the 70 passengers and 23 crew. The President and his wife will be tucked up in a spacious bedroom in the nose, complete with vanity, closets, lavatory and shower-tub. There will be a commodious presidential office, conference room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Loftiest Chariot | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

The test scheduled for this Tuesday is code-named Mighty Oak. If all goes as planned, a U.S. nuclear device will explode in a tunnel beneath the dry lake beds of Nevada, some 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. On the scale of modern tests, it rates as a penny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geneva's Lost Spirit: Reagan and Gorbachev | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Despite the appeals for safety measures, there is little support for strict firearms laws. In Houston, gun control is as unpopular as zoning. A Texan with a driver's license or similar I.D. can walk into a gun shop, sign a federal firearms form and purchase a weapon. No waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston Gunplay: A string of accidental shootings | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

The youngest contestant was three, while one seven-year-old veteran wrote confidently on his entry that "I've been making paper planes for four years now and this is my best one yet." A suitcase-size carton from Abilene, Texas, was stuffed with planes from an entire elementary school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Seattle: the Right Stuff, with Paper and Glue | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

The standard-size vacuum cleaner, squatting in countless American closets, is a veritable symbol of drudgery. But now there is a little vac hanging on the wall, designed just to clean up the spilled potting soil and the scattered cat litter. It is the Dustbuster, and its phenomenal success is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketbuster: The vac that roared | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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