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...mentioned that my second visit with Nixon occurred at a dinner last spring in Saddle River. The ground outside his house was soaked with rain, and no sooner had I entered the living room than I realized that I had tracked great clods of mud on the yellow-white carpet. Flustered, I called to the butler and asked him to do what he could with my destruction while I cleaned off my shoes in the bathroom. When I went back to the living room, scared to death, the carpet was spotless. Not a trace of a stain anywhere. The yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RICHARD NIXON: The Dark Comedian | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...Mud is sometimes called the "great equalizer," and the rain came pouring down yesterday. There is a limit, however, to how much an effect Mother Nature can have...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Australian National Team Humbles Laxwomen, 22-3 | 4/19/1988 | See Source »

...spends much of his time in the precincts of purgatory. The veteran commentator was a young reporter when the capital began to mobilize. "Was it conceivable," he wondered, "that the leadership of the Western world in wartime could fall to a city only a few generations out of the mud? A city that still boasted 15,000 privies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Historic Roles WASHINGTON GOES TO WAR | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...bozo," Ciavaglia said, and shoved a hanful of mud down Muzzatti's shirt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking Back | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

...spectacular granite peaks that frame Rio de Janeiro make it one of the world's most striking cities. Relentless rains turned beauty into chaos last week, however, as floods and mudslides struck hill-hugging shantytowns and roared into busy neighborhoods below. One slide drove more than 500 tons of mud and rock onto a clinic for the aged, killing 25 patients and staff members. Rush-hour traffic braked to a halt as floodwaters covered downtown thoroughfares, causing ten-mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Horror in The Hills | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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