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But the U.S.-Soviet rivalry colored, when it did not dominate, nearly all these seemingly disconnected events. Thatcher and Kohl defeated opponents who had made the acceptance of American missile emplacements a major issue. In the U.S., Democrats are decrying what they view as Reagan's excessively hard-line policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men of the Year: Ronald Reagan & Yuri Andropov | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

One of the central dramas of the brief Kennedy Administration was his passage from a sometimes indiscriminate anti-Communist hard line to a deepening awareness of the real dangers of nuclear war. It did not help Kennedy in this passage that he assembled a staff of war-hawk anti-Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.F.K. After 20 years, the question: How good a President? | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

Debreu, who will pocket $192,000 with his prize, first learned of the award in a 3:45 a.m. telephone call from a New York radio news reporter. An ensuing flurry of calls from friends, colleagues and other journalists kept Debreu and his wife Françoise from any thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prize Winner Gerard Debreu: An Economist's Economist | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Edith Etter, a University Hall secretary yesterday confirmed that one of the central administration office lines was disconnected, but she blamed it on a routine breakdown.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Steps Up Phone Installation | 10/15/1983 | See Source »

The scene of the book is Key West and Cuba. The story is a sort of saga, disconnected and episodic, of one Harry Morgan, burly, surly, hard-natured "conch" (as Key West natives call themselves), whose life has been spent in the single-minded effort to keep himself and his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1937: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT by Ernest Hemingway | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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