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...Reagan, he contends that an outright ban on antisatellite weapons would be impossible to verify, and has pushed the idea of developing an ultra modern defense against incoming missiles. The Administration, however, was thinking about proposing some kind of limitations when the Kremlin beat it to the propaganda punch. Each side is anxious to depict the other, particularly in the eyes of Western Europeans, as being recalcitrant on the subject of arms control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cautious Talk About Talks | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...modern newspapers, and moreover, society has virtually accepted wholesale the social use of many once-forbidden and shadowy substances. If that had been the focus of Woodward's book--as apologists for Belushi who have read only shallowly claim--not only would Wired have amounted to a virtual rabbit-punch, but it would have been boring to boot...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Skidding Through Life in The Fast Lane | 6/24/1984 | See Source »

...shocking. All your life just went out at that moment. It's just a knockout punch." --Harvard Captain Bruce Weller...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Batmen Take Third At N.E. Regional | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...knockout punch" left Harvard reeling, and the Crimson wasn't ready when it had to go against Seton Hall again just 20 minutes after watching 11 1/2 innings work sail out of the ballpark. Harvard committed a season-high eight errors and lost, 9-1, dropping to third in the Northeast and 28-6 overall...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Batmen Take Third At N.E. Regional | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

Presidential Contender Walter Mondale, the grand acquisitor of political endorsements, publicly spurns his most passionate devotees. Across this land some 10 million cigar smokers yearn for a front-page picture of Mondale, the only dedicated cigar smoker among the Democratic contenders, with his Punch panatela at a defiant angle. Or maybe 30 seconds on Tom Brokaw's news, showing a sweet cloud of Partagas No. 1 smoke carrying off the burdens of another campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Smoke-Filled Rooms | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

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