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...week a month. Otherwise he generally returns home to his family by 6, showers, changes into pajamas and eats a simple meal, often his favorite macaroni and cheese. After dinner Reagan munches on jelly beans as he works over his papers and speeches, which he writes in a personal shorthand on 4-in. by 5-in. index cards, or watches television. Favorite programs include The Waltons and reruns of Mission: Impossible. His best-liked authors include William F. Buckley Jr. and Allen Drury...
...other hand, to strip oneself bare is not necessarily to make oneself lovable. Samuel Pepys, the diarist's diarist, ran this second risk. The self that Pepys portrayed for nine years, beginning Jan. 1, 1660, was laid startlingly bare, so much so that the diarist resorted to a shorthand code. The code has long since been cracked, and British Historian Richard Ollard is too conscientious a biographer to gloss over Pepys' failings. Instead, he does something almost as fatal-something Pepys never did. He apologizes...
...industrial north of England from which he drew almost all his best material. His family had just struggled out of the potteries to a tenuous hold in the middle class. Arnold was an insatiably self-educating fellow. When he left home for London at 21, he had mastered shorthand, made a start on French and begun reading any "masterpiece" whose existence he had discovered. He clerked in London for several years, gradually making his way into the bourgeois musicale-and-reading set in Chelsea. His new friends had to coax him to try writing...
...earned the nickname "Gloomy Gus" for his cautious, pessimistic, Depression-bred outlook, Nixon finished third in his class. Unable to land work with a major New York law firm (he also tried the FBI), he returned to practice in Whittier, where he met Thelma Catherine ("Pat") Ryan, who taught shorthand and typing at the local high school. They were married after a two-year courtship and set up housekeeping in an apartment over a garage...
...completely certain how any of the eight Justices would fall. Yet each Justice has a record that law professors and others continually consult in trying to assess how he may rule in a specific case. TIME Correspondent David Beckwith, a lawyer himself, has surveyed such experts and offered this shorthand guide to the eight Justices as they forge their portentous decision...