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Embarking on an effort to build shields rather than swords was a characteristic Reagan gesture???a clear and simple assertion from his gut challenging the accepted wisdom that defensive systems are "destabilizing." His notion that missiles could be knocked out in space had a wistful though dangerous appeal; it suggested that the nation could be defended without earthly sacrifice and bloodshed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archive: Reagan for the Defense | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

...morning. Carlo Salvator Cicero and no one else must come to his house after breakfast. Mr. Cicero went. He whetted his blade, he whipped his lather, he wielded scissors, comb and brush to achieve the acme of tonsorial impeccability the masterpiece of a career. He finished with a gesture???and Charles Evans Hughes, pleased, handed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Count | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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