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...route to Guam, Air Force One flight attendants handed out Taiwanese chopsticks ("A mistake," said a White House spokesman). The President slipped on a cool white guayabera shirt, while Nancy looked rather like an empress in her maroon lounging robe. As soon as Air Force One cut through the cloud cover and roared down toward Peking's airport, though, the balmy Pacific interlude was unquestionably over. The Chinese afternoon was dark and unseasonably chilly 54° F). Still, Reagan bounded coatless out of the 707, looking cheery as ever. The 19-mile drive into Peking must have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History Beckons Again | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...there is little but hard gristle and bone. "We have no ranks," says Abdul Osman, 21. "We are all combatants, we are all volunteers." His job is to teach reading and writing to the troops. After supper he conducts a lesson: "Maman est tres belle .. . Maman a une belle robe . .. Bonjour, maman." Since there are 300 different languages in Chad, French is the lingua franca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: The Great Toyota War | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...project is to encourage that child to become the adult who gives them. And that usually requires a revolution in consciousness. We all know that the revolution doesn't occur simply because a person does the work necessary to get an advanced degree in a special subject. Your doctoral robe gets you into a classroom filled with curious faces, but won't make you feel like a teacher' it may only make you feel like a Macheth in stolen robes that hang loose upon him. Any book or program that purports to help teachers has to help the "usurper" grow...

Author: By Margaret M. Gullette, | Title: Laughing and Learning | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...freezing," said fifth-floor resident Michael Hong '85, who had been asleep when the alarm sounded. "I grabbed a robe and didn't have time to change. The sound [of he alarm] was too much for my ears...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain, | Title: Police Blotter | 2/4/1984 | See Source »

...ensuing flurry of calls from friends, colleagues and other journalists kept Debreu and his wife Françoise from any thought of returning to sleep. Hours later, the former French army officer was posing for pictures and answering questions while padding about his living room in a red silk robe and navy-blue pajamas. By the following night, however, Debreu had learned his lesson. Asked whether he had managed to sleep well following his recognition, Debreu replied: "Very well. We disconnected the telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prize Winner Gerard Debreu: An Economist's Economist | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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