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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Correspondent Hays Gorey, who covered the Kennedy campaign, the details of that tragedy will never fade. Eerily, just days earlier in San Francisco, firecrackers had gone off, causing reporters to worry about the candidate's safety. Gorey remembers Kennedy's response: "If someone wants to get me, I guess he will." On the night of the California primary, Gorey was walking toward Kennedy when the candidate was cut down in the pantry of a Los Angeles hotel. "I heard these pop-pop-pop sounds like firecrackers," Gorey says. "But instinctively you knew this time it was the real thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jan. 11, 1988 | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...common theme running through the large-type headlines of 1987 was Ronald Reagan. He was there not so much for his accomplishments as for his lack of them. "Terrible, terrible," said Nancy Reagan, herself a victim of cancer, in a year-end interview with the Washington Post. "Overall, I guess the whole year has been the roughest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Roughest Year | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...balanced his budgets, refused to throw money at problems and avoided fights he couldn't win. He pressed the legislature to improve health care for the poor, while holding taxes down and deregulating business. Says House Majority Whip Jane Hull, a conservative Republican and frequent Babbitt opponent, "I guess he did drag us kicking and screaming into the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Bruce Babbitt: Standing Up For Substance | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

Last year, the C entry of Canaday was known for trouble, residents say. Former Canadayan Jeffery M. Bray '90 says that "We probably had 10 out of the 30 people in the entry [go before] the Ad Board. I guess you could call that troublemaking...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Suites For Strangers | 12/17/1987 | See Source »

...what do you do for fun if you work in a copy shop? From the looks of it, you smoke a lot of cigarettes. "I do see a lot of people smoking in the back," Larry says. "I don't know why. I guess it's just something to do while you watch the paper go through the machine...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: Almost Quitting Time | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

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