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...decade ago, the chief White House usher, Rex Scouten, who keeps the White House running, was confronted with the discouraging fact that new White House paint would peel in sheets only months after application. The Bureau of Standards and the Duron Paint Co. advised stripping off the accumulation, in some places 50 layers deep. Four years ago, the east wall was cleaned and yielded its story for Seale. Scorch marks from the fire set in 1814 by the British rascal General Robert Ross were still visible. Lumpy mounds turned out to be exquisite carvings, done by skilled immigrant stonecarvers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Whisper of the White Walls | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...Blodgett Peel, everybody's happy. Diving Coach John Walker has a strong contingent of woman divers returning, and junior Dan Watson is fresh from a third place finish at the U.S. Olympic trials to spice up a men's squad that also gains freshman Tomas Gilmore, of Costa Rica and Deerfield Academy...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: A Look at the Class of '88 | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...forbidden because such arrangements are "liable to moral objection." Critics on all sides did not hesitate to attack. A Roman Catholic spokesman called the practice of AID "morally unacceptable," while a newspaper columnist denounced restrictions on pregnancy as "ludicrously inconsistent." But unless such differences are settled, warned Sir John Peel, former president of the British Medical Association, society will confront "the brink of something almost like the atomic bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Legal, Moral, Social Nightmare | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...Country Singer Kenny Rogers boom across a small store where four youngsters are huddled over a Space Invaders screen. In the streets of Peking, long-haired young men in dapper trenchcoats walk arm in arm with girlfriends in high heels. Near by, in neon-lit consumer emporiums, grizzled countryfolk peel off huge sheaves of banknotes to buy TV sets to take back to their villages. The Jianguo Hotel is a replica of the Holiday Inn in Palo Alto, Calif. Not far away, Maxim's de Pékin serves haute cuisine at $70 a head. The regiments of bicycles that clog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Capitalism in the Making | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...hope to peel back the eyeballs of everyone in the U.S. who will not support-the kind of policy being implemented now," McAward added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Killings | 11/4/1983 | See Source »

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