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Perhaps only the icy winter wind that swept the bleak ruins of eastern Europe really understood???the wind that moaned through an emptiness where once people had turned up their coat-collars against the cold, young men who dreamed of great careers, young girls who dreamed of sons. There would be no careers and no sons now, for the girls and the boys were gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Untellable Story | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...Georgians gloried in being outsiders," says a former Carter Cabinet officer about the inner White House circle. "They never understood???and do not today?that if you are going to govern, then you have to reach out." A couple of years ago, when trouble for Carter's programs was developing on the Hill and it was apparent that the gap between Congress and the White House was widening, Carter was urged to select certain compatible Senators and Congressmen and get to know them over dinner or at other social occasions. Maine's then Senator Edmund Muskie was viewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Assessing a Presidency | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

...head up." The only other possibility was an unlikely malfunction in radio equipment that could have prevented the KLM pilot from hearing the last vital communications from the airport tower or from the Pan Am cockpit. If both pilots and the tower controllers had fully heard ?and understood???one another, the KLM pilot would never have sent his craft hurtling toward takeoff before the Pan Am plane was off the runway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: ...What's he doing? He'll kill us all!' | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

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