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...onetime revolutionary firebrand and career military man, he died in a hail of bullets?yet history will remember Anwar Sadat, above all, as a man of peace...
...carry off precious topsoil. Then, every week with uncanny regularity, gentle showers brushed the new shoots. The temperature never went over 100° F, and every evening cool air formed in the swales and spread protectively over the young plants. The moisture choked the grasshopper hatch. Tornadoes and hail, which can claw the land raw in seconds, never materialized. Out of 25 summer thunderstorms, only one was manly enough to ruffle the oats and alfalfa of Adair County...
Since Thomas J. Watson founded IBM in 1924, the firm has always had a special mystique. The company for years had an unwritten dress code that required executives to wear white shirts. Employees posted THINK signs in their offices, and even jointly sang a company song, Hail to IBM* By paying high wages, promoting mainly from within and seldom laying off workers, IBM kept unions out of the company's manufacturing plants and fostered an atmosphere of close-knit camaraderie...
...they began investing the place with a swank and shine it has not had since early Camelot, restoring many of the touches that the minimalist Carter had banned. They put the trumpeters back on the White House balcony to welcome foreign visitors. They fully reinstated Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to the Chief. They stationed a Marine in dress uniform at the entrance to the West Lobby, just to salute decoratively and open the door. They spent $736,000 (all privately donated) to refurbish the family living quarters of the mansion, which had become a little tacky. Nancy Reagan wears...
...sort of speaking engagement any President would enjoy. Ronald Reagan, however, seemed to take particular relish last week in addressing the 182nd commencement exercises at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Striding to the podium amid the rousing strains of Hail to the Chief, Reagan was greeted by thunderous applause from the 906 graduating cadets and 26,000 spectators in the academy's Michie Stadium. Then, in a speech lasting 25 minutes, interrupted 15 times by applause, Reagan declared that the country had grown out of its "Viet Nam syndrome" and vowed to continue his battle...