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Reagan eked out an education doing odd jobs. He made his way successfully through the desperate Depression years on his genial Irish manner, his appealing profile and his enduring head of thick hair. He invested his movie earnings in real estate and made a bundle more, then entered government in protest against its size, cost and intrusion into individual lives. His view of power politics is still that of an outsider looking...
...Olympic broadcasting team. Eleven years after making his first world mark at 19, the lovable loudmouth in the Mickey Mouse shirt flopped backward over a 7-ft. 8-in. bar last month at the trials and landed somewhere in his own past, right back in the thick of the sport...
...forget. What has become of their husbands, their brothers and sons who have vanished during nearly a decade of civil strife? Delirious with despair, hundreds of them defied Lebanon's warlords last week and shut down the freshly opened roads between East and West Beirut. Bustling about in thick cotton dresses, they piled up burning tires, tree trunks and splintered furniture. Motorists who dared approach the barricades got their windshields smashed by club-toting mothers. Wives hurled curses at scurrying pedestrians, daughters scuffled with astonished soldiers...
...much as 15°. Many San Franciscans dress in layers of clothing that can be peeled or added as the sun goes in and out. San Francisco fog does not arrive on little cat's feet. It sluices toward the city from the Pacific Ocean in low, thick clouds that frequently obscure all but the top posts of the Golden Gate Bridge. A local radio announcer once described the approach of a summer fog as "seeing God out there in the ocean with a Reddi-Wip can in his hands...
After a year of negotiations, the result was an inch-thick document containing 148 specific and general recommendations for the city. It was signed by all the teams at an official ceremony June...