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Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Achieving the Divine Spark | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

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Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Achieving the Divine Spark | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Transportation) and also on the National Military Command Center, the Strategic Air Command, and a "looking glass" airborne command center. "They all can launch if you're incapacitated," the aide tells the President. Then, ominously, he adds, "As a practical matter, sir, they can also launch even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Many Fingers on the Button? | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...think I'm unyielding?" he asks Dean Garrett playfully, clasping a fist to the back of his center's neck. "No," Garrett answers sheepishly. "Am I unyielding?" he turns to Forward Daryl Thomas. "No, sir." It is the eve of the title game, and the press invites Alford into the discussion. Socks, shorts, one, two, three. "I've survived for four years," he backs off in a panic. "I've only got one more game." Indiana won it, 74-73, over the Syracuse Orangemen. Their perfectly competent but strangely insecure coach, Jim Boeheim, was slightly outflanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Basketball's Knight-Errant | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...breathlessly declared her most "fascinating and invigorating" ever. At a performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, Thatcher and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev delayed the second act for 20 minutes while they conferred over smoked sturgeon about arms control. The next day Foreign Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe was forced to improvise at a British embassy luncheon when the Prime Minister arrived two hours late. Reason: her morning meeting with Gorbachev had gone into overtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Giving Better Than She Got | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

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