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...Diana overlooked Charles, who has been given a minor make-over by his wife. She has spruced up his young-fogy image by getting him to wear brighter ties, striped shirts and less somber suits. She also persuaded him to allow her haircutter to give him a slightly longer, less plastered-down look that makes his ears look less prominent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prince and His Princess Arrive: Charles and Di | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...first time in history. Five raincoated, dark-suited, somber Soviet journalists showed up at the northwest gate of the White House. They were run through the magnetometer, their briefcases searched, waved on down the drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Offering Reagan His Say | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...wide-ranging interview with TIME Correspondent David Halevy, cia Director William Casey expressed somber but generally optimistic views on the fight against worldwide terrorism and other matters. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: An Interview with William Casey | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...early '30s) to establish a manufacturing business in London. They prosper, even though the elder Dorn dies prematurely and leaves Wife Sofka to turn Alfred, Frederick, Mimi and Betty into proper gentlemen and ladies. But there is only so much a mother can do. Alfred is a somber bibliophile destined to run the business and refute the opening line of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ("It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife"). Frederick seems to have stepped out of Turgenev, a charming, superfluous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Relativity Family and Friends | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

When the Federal Government was fully reassembled last week after the long summer holiday, all eyes were on the White House. Reagan took the stage at his dinner for Denmark's Prime Minister Poul Schluter. Somber aides hovered at the edges of the party through the evening, sometimes darting close to confide something to the attentive President. Anticipation was etched on his face. He turned to his lovely dinner companions, Lisbeth Schluter and Katherine Evans, editor of the Washington Journalism Review, and explained: "If somebody comes up and whispers in my ear and I have to get up hurriedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swans and Ugly Ducklings | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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