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...effect, the White House has become a small but complete city. Gardener Irvin Williams reports that a new lawn weathered the hot spell and is flourishing. Wood ducks are in the trees, mallards on the fountain pond, 40 or so other species of birds round about. Squirrels, lured by Reagan's generous dispensation of acorns, are too numerous to count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The $50 Million Face-Lift | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...above the rise of inflation, but he is unlikely to get that much without a tax increase. Even with such an improbable hike, Bush's numbers would fall more than $140 billion short of what the military wants over the next five years. The President-elect has yet to spell out which military programs he will put on hold. Bush's likely pick for Defense Secretary, former Texas Senator John Tower, would only add to the controversy. An unabashed hawk with strong ties to military contractors, Tower came under fire last week from moderates who think the job should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stealth Bomber: Will This Bird Fly? | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Harvard expecting a letdown? Maybe Brown was also expecting a Harvard letdown, hoping that Meehan's bedtime spell would mesmerize the Crimson...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: A Bedtime Story With Harvard as Hero | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

...sustained attempt to live a fiction, and to cast its spell over the minds of others." The words are not Neal Gabler's. They are taken from Sir Isaiah Berlin's characterization of Benjamin Disraeli. But it is a measure of this book's range, seriousness and distance from the typical Hollywood history that Gabler can comfortably evoke an Oxford scholar's description of a 19th century English Prime Minister to define the achievements of the first generation of movie mogul-ogres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Nov. 21, 1988 | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...catchy 800 numbers have become highly coveted. The Holiday Inn and Hilton chains each have reservation numbers that spell their names. An official from the 143-hotel Hyatt chain, who was searching for numbers with significance, not long ago dialed CHECK-IN to see who had the listing. After some negotiations, Hyatt made the Oscars an offer they could not resist: $40,000 cash, $5,000 in credit toward hotel visits and $2,000 to print brochures with Oscarvision's new, more fitting number: PLAY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Let Us Take Your Number | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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