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...problem is not so much military as moral. Therefore the answer shouldn't be expected to come from the keeper of the keys to the gun rack but from concerned citizens who have a healthy respect for the future of mankind. This issue relates not only to the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. but to everyone. In an atomic war nobody will be left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 19, 1982 | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...never wear a frock more than once/ Calvin Klein, Adolfo, Ralph Lauren and Bill Blass/ Ronald Reagan's mamma's going strictly first class." The ditty elicited rousing applause and, to the surprise of everyone, a bold, well-prepared rejoinder from the First Lady. As a garment rack was dramatically wheeled out from the wings, Nancy strode onstage-in a veritable riot of pantaloons, yellow rubber boots, an aqua skirt with red and yellow flowers, a feathered boa and a floppy feathered hat. Only the third First Lady to tread the Gridiron boards, but the very first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 12, 1982 | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...back to his beginnings. Many of this fall's clothes for men and women will feature a British accent, with lots of strict tailoring: heathery tweeds for men, an elongated Norfolk jacket for women worn with a contrasting tweed skirt. Fabrics immaculate, tailoring impeccable: the best off-the-rack American stuff that comes to hand. Wearing Ralph Lauren is not exactly like falling into Jay Gatsby's closet; it is more like joining one of John O'Hara's country clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Cheers for the Home Team | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

About once a month, though, the juice glasses at Jerry's Restaurant on San Felipe Road rattle in the rack, and the forest of real estate signs on San Benito Street shiver at the crest of a quake scoring 3 or more on the Richter scale. When a 5.9 quake snaked through town in August 1979, Tricia Brem was in labor at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital; her bed rolled across the room and slammed into the opposite wall. During the same quake, Store Owner Fernando Gonzalez watched $30,000 worth of liquor somersault from his shelves. Gonzalez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Tremors on the Fault | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...loopholes the Boston sales clerk may have meant is visible in the Liberty Tree store an inconspicuous little shop on Mass Ave in Central Square, with no sign announcing the store's name On one shelf, a rack of pipes is designated "tobacco pipes." The owner of Liberty Tree says he hasn't yet through about whether he will close his two stores, but adds with more than a touch of sarcasm that his decision will depend on "whether I want to go to jail...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Heads You Lose | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

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