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...California freeway system: personalized license plates. Following an act of the legislature, Doolittle and about two dozen other Congressional Medal of Honor winners living in the Golden State were paraded through the center of Sacramento and awarded the numbered plates on the steps of the capitol. (Doolittle, the fifth oldest, got plate 05.) Although "pleased and flattered," the general hasn't yet decided whether he will use the plates...
...very long, hadn't been in a building with a gym for close to a decade, couldn't afford a scoreboard or away uniforms, and had a coach who doubled as a music teacher. Sophomore year was the first time they could get a varsity assembled, and the oldest players were juniors because that was the oldest class that had guys...
...lawyer. The other two members of the "troika" that constituted a kind of inner Government are expected to depart soon after Election Day: White House Chief of Staff James Baker, a pragmatist and tactician, to another post in the Government, and Deputy Chief Michael Deaver, one of Reagan's oldest and closest friends, to private life...
...Reagan cruises along as serenely self-confident as ever. Now is usually the time in a first term when the press trots out the before-and-after photographs, palpably depicting the burdens of the Oval Office: rosy, beaming President-elect vs. haggard, wan incumbent. But Reagan, now the oldest President in history, seems to have grown more robust since his Inauguration. After three years his optimism appears undimmed, his faith in bedrock conservative notions unshaken. "His perspective is unusual," explains one White House aide of the boss's remarkable equanimity. "Someone 35 years old sees hills and valleys every...
...Bethel Institutional Baptist Church is the oldest congregation in Jacksonville, Fla., with a magnificent organ imported from Germany in 1902. Services for the all-black congregation usually begin with hand-clapping gospel music from Bethel's choirs. But there was a very different service a few days ago. Amid shouted "amens" from the congregation, preacher after preacher mounted the pulpit to testify. "Blacks are God's chosen people," thundered one; "I do believe Ethiopia shall rise," shouted another. Then came the most celebrated preacher among them, Democratic Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson. Standing under an arch outlined in blue...