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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when it was all over, Reagan-virtually alone-had collected several hundred thousand more votes than the President in contested primaries. The popular explanation was that opponent Ford was dull. But Reagan on his own had surely touched a public nerve. Now, trailing Ford in delegates, he was fighting-in his low-key way-to keep the race alive...
...Murray Gart, 6,000 miles away in Connecticut, who relayed the message to other editors at their homes. Moments later, Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo, tipped off by a State Department source, sent confirming word from the capital. At that point (about 9 p.m. New York time), only a few thousand copies of the cover picture for the July 12 issue had been printed, and TIME's managing editor gave the order to stop the presses and reopen the magazine. Within minutes, the needed staff began assembling on the 25th floor of the Time & Life Building in Rockefeller Center, including...
...order to enjoy this film one must accept the idea that it is essentially no sillier to climb the world's highest mountain in order to ski down a few thousand feet than it is to climb to the summit in order to plant your country's flag there. Neither is a useful or sensible activity, but both have a certain absurd grandeur about them...
...putdowns by which Americans play tag with their terror of failure. For failure is finally what Ordinary People is about. It may be Guest's ultimate irony that the older brother's drowning and Conrad's attempted suicide are only symbols for spiritual death-for a thousand subtle methods of neglect and undernourishment by means of which loved ones kill and are killed within the family circle...
...OLYMPIC GAMES: THE FIRST THOUSAND YEARS by M.I. FINLEY and H.W. PLEKET 140 pages. Illustrated. Viking...