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...road" and has doubled its initial circulation of 200,000 in its first year. Sometimes, to get attention, it asks unanswerable questions on its cover ("Will There Ever Be a Jewish President?"). Its current issue, hailing the 1980s, proclaims it the Decade to Remember, foreseeing "fat and not lean years," a revival of Yankee ingenuity, and major advances in medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Guessing Disguised as News | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...came-to-Alaska expoundings of a motley assortment of fast dealers, Dangerous Dan McGrews, crazed clergymen, plain folks, hippies keeping warm and dry and happy snorting cocaine, bartenders, flinty newspaper editors, pipeline workers, various well-and-not-so-well-intentioned politicians, naturalists and whores. All of them seem to lean close and talk confidentially to McGinnis the outsider...

Author: By Francis MARK Muro, | Title: The Ragged Edge | 11/7/1980 | See Source »

Although the 97th Congress itself will lean much further right than its predecessor, the Republicans are probably a bit premature in their morning-after predictions of a lasting conservative realignment...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Reagan's Sweep Boosts GOP on Hill As Republicans Take Control in Senate | 11/6/1980 | See Source »

...Ohio's 1976 delegation to the Electoral College, son of a steelworker and a running guard for Ohio State, dismisses the poll as a lot of crap. The purple-and-yellow tie with the silver sheen ripples as Ujhelyi conducts an experiment to see just how far he can lean back in his chair and still see the visitor over the paunch. Each word is an effort, a patented statement issued forth from the right side of his mouth. The left seems almost hermetically sealed...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Pride Grows With Progress | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...exports to the U.S. Reagan Adviser Glenn Campbell, director of the Hoover Institution, dismayed some Japanese by suggesting last week in Tokyo that Japan take a more active military role to protect its oil shipments from the Persian Gulf. But two other U.S. Asian allies, Thailand and the Philippines, lean toward Reagan. In the Philippines, says a local political analyst, the government of Ferdinand Marcos feels "Reagan would support iany regime, regardless of whether or not it is repressive, so long ias it backs America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Praising with Faint Damns | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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