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...Soviet conventional attack. But the president amended his argument last week merely to get a jump in the pre-Geneva jousting. He said that NATO could do without our theater forces if the Soviets would also cut back. Thus, when one symbol becomes more useful than another, we casually fold our umbrella in a little and somehow security isn't affected. You don't need to know much about logistical "choke points" to challenge the Reagan-Brezhnev fantasy framework of arms competition...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Strategic Objectives | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

...voted overwhelmingly for the Independents in the number two, three, four and five places on their ballots. "The question was how mad they were," one local politician said, reasoning that if they were only fairly angry they would vote for Wilkes number one and then return to the liberal fold. But it turned out that they were really, really mad, furious in fact. And it turned out that they robbed the CCA of its best chance for a majority in years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Counting Change in Cambridge 1981 | 11/10/1981 | See Source »

...actress's portrayal of Golda Meir will have on young Israeli women-or old Israeli politicians for that matter. Coaxed out of retirement to play the late Israeli leader in the Operation Prime Time TV movie, A Woman Called Golda, to be aired next May, Bergman managed to fold a Yiddish lilt into her husky Swedish whisper. Though the actress spent hours watching news and documentary footage of Golda, she only saw the grande dame of Israeli politics brighten once-in an old segment of TV's This Is Your Life. "They were all so serious, those films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 9, 1981 | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...Fold, Spindke and Mutilate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Dividends | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...free people for a fuller life. In the 1960s, though, the cards were transmogrified into the symbol of alienation in a society where machines had run amuck. The somewhat bossy injunction printed on the cards became a slogan of student rebellion: "I am a human being. Do not fold, spindle or mutilate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Dividends | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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