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Reagan takes his black leather swivel chair, while Meese and Baker perch on either side of the massive oak desk...
CAMBRIDGE, Ma.--Planned shipments of radioactive materials from Oak Ridge, Tennessee to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (NRL) have caused local concern recently...
...Ronald Reagan's first week as President began. "I wonder if they left us anything," he said to an assortment of aides on first sitting at the great oak desk ini the Oval Office. "Well, they've left me some paper clips." Then, to no one in particular he joked: "It's been a very wonderful day. I guess now I can go back to California. Can't I?" -By Walter Isaacson...
...village of Soldiers Grove (pop. 616), snugly settled in the white oak, pine and basswood hills of southern Wisconsin, is slowly coming awake again, like a patient after a successful heart transplant. In this case, the village is undergoing urban surgery. "Soldiers Grove's survival," boasts one resident, "has been a matter of gumption...
...time to be an Iranian student in the U.S. and a good time to be a seller of flags. The citizens of Hermitage, Pa., put up a new flag in the local cemetery for every day of the captivity. Yellow ribbons were tied around trees-old, oak and otherwise-across the country. The White House Christmas tree was left dark except for the star on its top. Bales of Christmas cards were delivered to the hostages, and a group of American clergymen was allowed into the embassy to conduct Christmas services for them...