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...what he intends will not be known until he is put to the test. Like many successful politicians, he is essentially an enigma. Says one shrewd Massachusetts Republican leader who has known and supported Reagan for many years: "I know George Bush. I know Howard Baker. I know Phil Crane. I know Bob Dole. I even know John Anderson. They all know me. But I don't know Ronald Reagan. If he came into a room where I was, someone would have to tell him my name. He is the most aloof politician I have ever encountered...
...Cambridge too is celebrating its 350th, a year-long bash commemorating the city that gave birth not only to endless generations of Harvard scholars but also the Porterhouse steak, the Polaroid Land camera, and the proportional representation election. "Boston is the biggest suburb of Cambridge," former mayor Edward Crane '35 was fond of declaring; indeed, few cities of 100,000 have had an impact so large on the nation...
...copy of the Declaration of Independence," says Assistant Curator Maxwell Hearn. Over the next eight centuries, Zhou craftsmen became increasingly uninhibited in adding figures to their vessels, as handles or simply as decoration. One massive vase is supported by eight crouching felines and topped by an insouciant and realistic crane with half-spread wings poised as if for takeoff. By the late 3rd century B.C., some artisans were dispensing with the traditional vessel forms entirely, as attested by a container fashioned in the shape of a rhinoceros. Its creator seized on the skin folds around the beast's neck...
...four Republican candidates staged last week in Chicago's Continental Plaza Hotel. While Reagan looked on benignly, his rivals erupted into an exchange of accusations. George Bush charged John Anderson with wanting to cut Social Security payments, and Anderson interrupted, "That's not true." Illinois Congressman Philip Crane demanded to know whether Anderson would support the eventual G.O.P. winner, and Anderson retorted that he expected to be the winner. "You're in the wrong party," sniped Crane. "I didn't know we had a loyalty test," said Anderson...
...Frankly, I feel he [Reagan! used you to set me up," he wrote to the four candidates the next day. Crane now agrees with that judgment. But the other three candidates still blame Bush for the debacle. Reagan calls Bush's complaints "ridiculous." Admits Bush, with unquestionable accuracy: "I could have handled certain things better...