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Reagan chose to treat the Senate vote as a triumph. Coming home from Europe Friday afternoon, he stepped off a Marine helicopter onto the South Lawn of the White House and exclaimed to a welcoming crowd of more than 100 Government employees, salted with luminaries like Treasury Secretary James Baker: "How sweet it is to return to a 50-49 Senate victory for spending restraint and no tax increase!" He insisted that if zero real growth in military spending is inadequate to protect the national security, "I will not hesitate to request, and the Senate leaders have assured me that...
...undergo the brutally long campaigning, the probing eye of the press. There are surely tensions between the driving purpose inside the man and the requirement for surface affability and calm. Jimmy Carter was something of a loner even when he played host to several hundred Georgians on the South Lawn of the White House. The Reagans, with all their graceful entertaining and the President's old-shoe geniality, are said to be "very private people." The ability to tune out on many occasions, simply not to notice, not to listen, may be part of the armor that carries a candidate...
From the beginning. Sovern should have turned this battle of wills into a test of patience, downplaying the drama. The situation at Morningside Heights never demanded decisive action. Only a small of students are involved. On the lawn in front of Hamilton Hall, other undergraduates complacently play frisbee and football or study in the sun. And despite the chains, Hamilton Hall remains accessible through an underground tunnel...
...April Fool's eve, and 2,000 of the faithful have filed into < the sold-out Tupperware Convention Center in Kissimmee, Fla. On the lawn outside stands a light infantry of pickup trucks; one bumper sign reads GOD GUNS AND GUTS MADE AMERICA--LET'S KEEP ALL THREE. Inside, an army of tattoos comes to attention as the houselights fall, the speakers blare That's Entertainment, and the giant screen flashes the words LIVE FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN: WRESTLEMANIA. The magic moment has arrived. And so, for the moment, has the bastard sport of pro wrestling. From glittery Manhattan (where...
...money so fast that banking regulators closed the institution. The panic then spread, because Home State's failure threatened to exhaust a private insurance fund of $130 million that covers deposits at 70 of Ohio's nearly 300 thrifts. Crowds of up to 1,000 people, some equipped with lawn chairs and portable TV sets, camped overnight in front of S and Ls, hoping to claim their money before it was all gone...