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...stamps. Both assumptions, TIME's economists agreed, are wishful thinking. The board expected the deficit to rise from $125 billion in 1983 to $150 billion in 1985. If the Government has to borrow those gargantuan sums, interest rates will almost surely remain at towering levels and prevent a robust economic recovery...
Princeton's Zabel projected that robust look of salubriousness. Thick legs, big chest, curly hair, you picture him quaffing a glass of milk and striding about Princeton's hillocked campus, feet sandal-shorn and nostrils flaring to gulp in the spring air. His physical vigorousness translates into an intensely competitive spirit, and the first three and a half games of the two New Yorkers' match filled itself with innumerable let calls and questionings...
Brezhnev's advanced age and his less than robust demeanor at the nationally televised funeral underline new anxieties about who will succeed him in the key post of Communist Party chief. Had he outlived Brezhnev, Suslov was expected to use his formidable authority as senior Politburo member to ensure an orderly transfer of power. The leading contenders for Brezhnev's job now include Politburo Stalwarts Andrei Kirilenko, 75, and Konstantin Chernenko, 70. According to Yale University Kremlinologist Wolfgang Leonhard, no current Soviet leader except Brezhnev comes "anywhere near Suslov in influence, stature, administrative skill and statesmanship...
After him it would be Amplanger's turn, one of the 'new men': ruthlessly dynamic, jovial, robust-his smile was enough to scare a person, and perhaps they needed him quickly to kill him off spectacularly, and could therefore get himself-Tolm-quietly out of the way. Amplanger stood for stock exchange, Olympic shooting team, tennis, Zummerling, and teeth-grinding ruthlessness. Perhaps they wanted to speed up Amplanger's election-he, Tolm, radiated too many humanistic thoughts, self-doubts, too much capitalist melancholy...
...ready smile and a sharp sense of the absurd. He learned that one of the White House servants, a robust woman of perhaps 190 lbs., believed in reincarnation, so he asked her what she wanted to be in her next life. A canary, she said wistfully. Roosevelt couldn't resist laughter. "I love it, I love it, I love it," he said. One of his most celebrated bits of clowning was his mock-solemn response to a Republican charge that he had accidentally left his Scotch terrier Fala behind on a trip to Alaska and then sent a destroyer...