Word: excerpt
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...excerpt that follows, McNamara describes an eerily similar debate over offensive and defensive systems that took place 19 years ago but was very much on the minds of American and Soviet officials as they prepared for the weekend meeting in Reykjav?...
...That encounter too was organized on short notice, without a prearranged outcome and with only a few advisers on each side. Johnson relied most heavily on his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, later head of the World Bank and currently a director of the Ford Foundation. The following exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming book, Blundering into Disaster: Surviving the First Century of the Nuclear Age (Pantheon Books; $14.95), recounts that fateful meeting and its consequences...
...graduates of the U.S. Military Academy [May 30], often called the class of 9/11, belongs to a tradition of covering events there. TIME reported on another graduation at West Point, 25 years ago, when the first class to include women (62 of them) won its commissions. Here is an excerpt from that May 19, 1980, piece...
...whose semi-autobiographical stories featured his enlightenment-seeking, hard-drinking literary buddies Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, wrote the three-act play in 1957, the same year his epic novel On the Road was printed, but it was never performed or published. Best Life magazine, which will carry an excerpt from Beat Generation in its July issue, describes it as "a day in the drink- and drug-hazed life of [Kerouac's] own literary alter...
...Iron Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be experiencing a few problems as California's Governor [May 2]. It might cheer him to read an excerpt from Richard Schickel's Jan. 24, 1977, review of Pumping Iron, the documentary that helped make Schwarzenegger a household name...