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Wyeth first sketched the White House last fall, as he sat cross-legged on the lawn. The finished painting became the Reagans' Christmas card this year. That token of good will to men is not a new phenomenon in the federal city, where trouble is the main business. Many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Those Evergreen Echoes | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

Woodhouse has always found animals easier to get along with than people, and the animals have always responded in kind. When she was growing up as the daughter of a clergyman and educator, her mother boarded dogs; when one of them was barking, young Barbara was instructed to go "talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: . . . And Barking Up Another Tree | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

The debate about Coolidge will go on. The verbal sketches in William Allen White's 1938 biography A Puritan in Babylon still loom large in public memory: "Flinty-faced, sugar-cured and hickory-smoked, the wordless Yankee joss sitting cross-legged in the, cosmos"; the world was "running madly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Puritan in the Cabinet Room | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

For a while, the actors seem to feel this mismatching, as the first few scenes tend towards the wooden. But by the time the audience cross-legged down the JCR's length, with only a narrow aisle for the actors) has craned its collective neck as the scene flashes from...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Pleasantly Scandalous | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

Most elderly Americans traditionally believe that security in their later years rested on a three-legged stool of Social Security, private pensions and savings. An average retired couple has an income of about $14,700 per year, of which 33% comes from Social Security, 13% from private pensions and 17.5...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing the Pension Dilemma | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

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