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...national leadership and Ronald Reagan. Democrats cannot make the mistake of insisting that Reagan's policies are always rejected, and therefore that no part of his program should be continued." In 1988, he thinks, voters will be looking for the "strength of leadership" that Reagan demonstrated, without wanting a "rubber stamp for everything he did." As the TIME survey demonstrates, the November races might be considered simply a prelude to the real battle for the soul of the nation two years from...
Ginn was selling props -- magic wands that turn into rubber snakes, and whatnot -- and he punctuated his pitch Henny Youngman-style: "Talk about a cheap gag. This'll make you gag, Charlie." Then Bill Anderson came out to talk about using ventriloquism in church work. He had written a pamphlet of 111 different ways to use it, one paragraph devoted to each method, and he mentioned all 111. A sample: "Use your dummy for free advertising. Take your dummy to a clothing store to get a new suit, or a barber shop to get his hair cut, and call...
...more Americans in West Beirut, bringing to six the number of U.S. citizens who, along with a dozen foreigners of other nationalities, are believed to be held hostage in that country by various terrorist groups. And in southern Lebanon, after Palestinian guerrillas attempted to infiltrate Israel in a rubber dinghy, Israeli warplanes attacked a suspected ammunition dump on the outskirts of the port city of Sidon, devastating an industrial district...
Inevitably, the antidrug crusade is producing some ludicrous results. A best-selling toy in the U.S. is Madballs, a set of eight rubber balls adorned with gross names and faces. One of the more grotesque Madballs, depicting a creature whose skull has been split wide open, was called Crack Head. Fearful that this charming toy might be accused of glorifying drug use, the toymakers last month changed the name to Bash Brain...
...horizon while glistening waves caressed a deserted beach. Another depicted a beach chair dragging itself across the sand, dipping an aluminum toe in the water and timidly scampering away. Still another presented two Luxo desk lamps playing a friendly game of catch, stretching their springy arms and butting a rubber ball with their warm, cone-shaped heads...