Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Today, there's much more emphasis on individual and global problems and much less concern for what's happening in the United States or even in Cambridge," says Reeves, who was director of Phillips Brooks House's (PBH) first summer community outreach program at Columbia Point...
While the final decision was to plan programs along the lines of social service, Dixon sees the two as intertwined. As director of an all-day program for children at three Cambridge housing projects last summer, Dixon says she tried to combine service and politics...
...networks station cameras with giant telephoto lenses on a hilly knob in the Santa Ynez Mountains, three miles from the presidential retreat. Even from that distant vantage point, the equipment is almost powerful enough to show how many rashers of bacon are on the Reagans' breakfast plates. This summer ABC was especially eager to capture a recuperating Reagan on horseback, so the news editors went to the sports division for an even more powerful lens...
Baldrige himself, the cowboyindustrialist who tells you with a twinkle that he won 50 bucks roping steers out West this summer, puffs on a cigarette after breakfast and says that Ronald Reagan has changed the thinking in the U.S. more than any other President since Franklin D. Roosevelt. That crusade must continue. And another thing: Baldrige knows that being in the thick of the deficit, trade and tax battles is more gratifying than anything else he could be doing. Mature power has its own joys...
Grant remembered it all on the porch of a cottage at Mount McGregor in the foothills of the Adirondacks in the summer of 1885, 100 years ago. He was dying of cancer. As he sat in a silk top hat, reassembling the past, tourists came to stare at him from a little distance. He let them watch, even wanted them to. So many planes of the public and the private intersected in Grant: the obscure American failure who saved the Union. Now, at the last, the shabby embarrassment who was also the first genius of industrial warfare made the intimate...