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...year later, Smith died, and having worked at five jobs in five years, Helms decided to go back home and make a normal life in North Carolina: build a house (a red brick quasi-colonial next door to his father-in-law), join the Rotary Club (chapter president), gab with the Masons (32nd degree, the second highest rank), and devote evenings to making popcorn with Dot and his daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Right, March!: Jesse Helms | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Boeing 727 jet called Leadership 80 is rattling through a cobblestoned stretch of sky, descending toward its third landing of the day. In the first cabin a stewardess is picking up crockery and leftovers; a reporter steals some conversation with a campaign official; Aides Mike Deaver and Stu Spencer gab about the next stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Meet the Real Ronald Reagan | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Those feet-up gab sessions, those earnest White House breakfasts that are so much a part of domestic politics, are of no account in a dilemma like Iran. It is almost pure decision making from dawn to dawn. There are meetings constantly, but there is always something oddly uncollegial about them. When power is employed, the resolve and foresight of the President are the main ingredients. Without those the apparatus does not work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Forge of Leadership | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...mission for the KGB: to set up a brothel close to the Bonn political and diplomatic scene, and, in the words of the Interior Ministry, "to report on interesting customers and to procure compromising material about them," The price Haas charged for each session of fun and gab was a hefty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Red Brothel in Bonn | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...young man in tight blue jeans and tooled leather boots approaches not to buy but to gab. "Say, Jim. You want a full military funeral when Kerr-McGee gets done with you? We'll have to find you a lead coffin so you don't contaminate the cemetery. How many pall bearers you figure it takes to haul a lead coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oklahoma: The Pangs of Bearing Witness | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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