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...slow response time that Reagan showed in the debate is not uncommon among older people. Said Dr. James Spar, a geriatrics psychiatrist at UCLA: "It's the kind of forgetfulness that when you reach back for a fact, it isn't there. But 20 minutes later, it comes back to you." Stress, not age, may explain Reagan's slips. "Any of us could be capable of that kind of performance live on national TV," said Dr. William Applegate, a geriatrics expert at the University of Tennessee...
...Lenin, proudly proclaimed: "Not us." We therefore did little to create a convincing program, and we left to the liberal organizers of the mass demonstrations the tedious labor of welding alliances. We attended those demonstrations only under the condition that we could hitch on a Bobby Seale Brigade and spar with the police...
Reagan aides spar over the Carter campaign-papers case
...parade of six monosyllables. Coe has also seen fit to supplant wenches with daughters Nit-picking, you say? Then how about Coe's alteration of one of the most famous lines in all Shakespeare? When Prince Hal comes upon the supposedly dead Falstaff, he says. "I could have better spar'd a better man" And Coe has substituted the word lost. That's the problem give an emender an inch and he'll take a mile. Do we really need Shakespeare translated into Basic English? What happened to "the playwright's original intention" of which Coe wrote...
...then consider. Those counterproposals may be months in coming. Says Martin Hillenbrand of the Paris-based Atlantic Institute for International Affairs: "We are not yet at the stage where possible concessions are signaled and the outline of a potential agreement begins to take shape. We are still in the sparring stage - and with the Soviets, that can last a long time." With all his bobbing and weaving in recent weeks, Ronald Reagan was serving notice that he can spar a little too. - By George J. Church...