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...always been a threat as well as a promise. It entices the winter-weary by flaunting balmy temperatures, azure skies and buds bursting into blazing color. Children break out their bicycles, college students recline and pretend to study on the mall, and Americans of all ages tilt pale faces to catch the first warming rays...
Specifically, it was The Button in Fort Lauderdale where last Wednesday afternoon an assorted group of Crimson undergraduates made Montezuma's revenge pale by comparison...
...remarkably broad. In fact, 42% of those who voted for Gerald Ford in the election now say their impression of Carter has improved since then. As he begins making hard decisions on energy policy, welfare reform and taxes, this glorious glow about Carter's performance will doubtless pale. For the moment, however, he has brought a substantial lift to the morale of Americans. TIME's national mood indicator, based on a series of questions that measure people's confidence in the U.S., has risen to 47%, up seven percentage points since the election and a heady...
...camera into the factories, mills and mines where children worked. "I have seen their tragic stories, watched their cramped lives, and seen their fruitless struggles in the industrial game, where the odds are all against them," he wrote later. The veracity with which his lens recorded the pinched, pale, grimy faces of breaker boys in a Pennsylvania coal mine, or the raw-fingered, oyster-shucking children of New England, or the wan cotton-mill girls against their enveloping perspectives of white bobbins, has not been equaled since...
...calls, 42 of which reached the Oval Office, poured in from around the country, the President sipped tea and took notes. "This is a learning process rather than a teaching process," he had said when asked about the note pad. Opposite him in a matching pale orange chair was CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite, an avuncular master of ceremonies who was hardly needed, so smoothly and knowledgeably did the President field the questions and set the gentle tone that graced the day. Even the high hard pitches drew nothing from the President but the desire to inform. Why are Son Chip...