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...dozen advisers submitted memoranda, Speechwriter Ken Khachigian prepared a draft. Flying back to California from Washington two weeks ago, Reagan read the pile of paper. Then the old actor, who has a superb inner ear for the crowd-pleasing phrase, put the whole mass aside and started out from scratch on a blank sheet of paper. Said he to aides, half apologetically: "I've got to do it in my own words." He kept scribbling away at Pacific Palisades, while movers bustled about crating up possessions...
...hostage crisis: I'm doing a hell of a lot of reading and being briefed. My recommendation is that we start from scratch and review every possible option, all the steps that have been taken, and then make an objective determination as to whether they have been effective. But Reagan, I think properly, is determined not to try to act like the President before he is the President. Nothing is being done that would undermine what the Carter Administration is doing...
...widespread custom, called cqo gio (Vietnamese for "scratch the wind"), is used for everything from colds to convulsions. A medicated oil or ointment is rubbed into the skin, which is then firmly stroked with a coin, comb or spoon until contusions appear. The practice seems harmless, says Pediatrician Gentry Yeatman of the Tacoma, Wash., Madigan Army Medical Center, who became familiar with the massage technique during a 1975 stint at a refugee camp in Indiantown Gap, Pa. In a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yeatman warns that most American physicians are unfamiliar with...
...their outlook on the world; searched out their motivations and methods and then laid forth their lives, mostly in their own words--but through his own wild periscope of the self-style uptown revel, the reluctant Jew, the recipient of all that his immigrant father had built from scratch long that same seamy side of New York, including what Joseph and Abbott Liebling had tried their best to shield him from. His parents' efforts led to his schizophrenic class attitudes: in his own life averse to the streets (he lived an upperclass life on an upper-middle class budget...
...ballots of all 50 states in a matter of months shows the system's flexibility and the potential for a viable third party, some analysts say. But the winner-take-all nature of electoral politics, the new campaign spending laws, the difficulty of creating a national party from scratch, and the media's emphasis on the two major parties' nominees make the emergence of a third party unlikely in the near future...