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...congressional goad. "If he returns by the fall, now having licked the Big C, he becomes an even more formidable political figure," says White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan. To be sure, Reagan's stock with the public is already high and likely to go higher. His favorable rating rose from 57% in May to 66% after the Beirut hostages were released. If he recovers rapidly, his public persona will gain even more luster...
...another, there are doubts and contradictions within each of them. Yet individual views are all that is left of this singular event, since the rubble of Hiroshima has long been bulldozed away, the dead cremated, the air blown clean. Today on streets over which the Bomb's cloud rose like a red-purple flower are coffeehouses where Mozart is played, gilded hotels with blazing chandeliers, COKE IS IT signs and the headquarters of the Mazda corporation. Everything faces forward, except that the name of the city can never be mentioned without invoking a past to which everyone is attached...
...year-old on the spot--suddenly springing from a chair to strike a military pose, demonstrating a march step, or hunching down like a shortstop. In his office he sang the school song that was sung by his classmates the morning of the bombing. As he did, he rose automatically and snapped to attention, chin tucked, eyes forward...
...Bomb Dome, originally Hiroshima Prefecture's Industrial Promotion Hall, a sort of chamber of commerce building and exhibition hall in 1945. The remains stand just outside the point of the park, across the Aioi Bridge. This shell is Hiroshima's Eiffel Tower, its Statue of Liberty. Where the dome rose, only the supporting beams remain, a giant hairnet capping four floors of vacant gray walls, much of their outer skin peeled away, exposing patches of brick. The interior floors are also gone, making the entire structure an accidental atrium. A front doorway leads to nowhere. A metal spiral staircase ascends...
...more worker retraining. Chevalier was encouraged by his government's gradual progress in ending France's trade deficit and reducing its budget deficit. The cost of servicing the nation's foreign debt has stopped an upward climb, although it now stands at $11 billion a year. Proctivity in 1984 rose by a strong 5%. Industrial investment is good, partly in response to higher corporate profits. Inflation has dropped to 5.7% annually this year, and is expected to decline to 5.2% in 1986. Even with that improvement, France's inflation is still about three percentage points higher than that...