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...brightness of light, light all around," the painter wrote as she was approaching her 90s. She had been nine months old, sitting among white pillows outside her parents' farmhouse in the wheat country near Sun Prairie, Wis.; the Civil War had ended less than 25 years before, the Ford was not invented, and Picasso was six. That infant memory of brightness would irradiate her work for the best part of a century, leaving no doubt, when Georgia O'Keeffe died last week in Santa Fe at the age of 98, that one of the great American lives had ended...
...years Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin ambled through the streets of Washington like a Russian bear who resembled your Uncle Ralph. There has never been anything quite like him in capital diplomacy. He survived Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and Gorbachev. Sighs Soviet Expert William Hyland: "That's a major achievement in itself...
...Ford and other manufacturers with large blue-collar work forces have discovered that drug dealers offer virtually an alternative cafeteria service in their plants. Instead of meat loaf, macaroni and apple pie, the choices are marijuana, hashish, cocaine and amphetamines. For Cherry Electrical Products, a semiconductor and electrical-equipment manufacturer near Chicago, the seamy side of company life came to light in October 1984, when two employees were arrested late one evening for selling marijuana to an undercover policeman. President Peter Cherry then discovered that drugs were being peddled in the company's stock room. One woman employee with...
...Central America, there is a mismatch between the Administration's objective and the instruments available, reminiscent of our ill-fated adventure in Lebanon," James Schlesinger, Defense Secretary under Gerald Ford, told TIME last week. "Mere dislike of the Sandinistas is not an - adequate basis for policy." Schlesinger contends that the rebels are no equal for the Nicaraguan army. "To define the American interest as that of the contras is to identify with a losing cause," says he. "To suggest that money for--and victory of--the contras is the only way to avoid introducing American troops is to come close...
...democratic consensus were precluded by civil war. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)--a Marxist group supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union--prevailed in 1976, but Savimbi's group, a Chinese proxy, failed to secure itself a role in the new government. This despite the Ford Administration's last-ditch commitment of $32 million in CIA aid to another "anti-communist" faction, the now-defunct National Front for the Liberation of Angola...