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...foreign officials are invited for similar informal encounters. At these small gatherings, the people who report the news at TIME get a wider picture of the people who make it. The receptions are held throughout the year, but take on an added bustle in the first weeks of autumn, when government leaders converge on New York City for the United Nations General Assembly. In the ten-day period prior to their breakfast with Sepulveda, TIME journalists met with the President of Argentina (in this case, at his New York City hotel), the Prime Minister of Lebanon, and the foreign ministers...
...Umberto Eco, 52, has long contemplated the many kinds of laughter, including recently the all-the-way-to-the-bank kind. The awesome success of his medieval-monastery mystery, The Name of the Rose, has turned the scholarly Italian professor of semiotics into an international literary icon. During an autumn promotional tour of the U.S. last week, he delighted an audience of New York City fans, but deftly declined to interpret the meaning of his work. Eco did talk about the pressures of fame and fortune. "I used to think that financial success would enable me to pursue my interests...
...California wine. Finally, Gromyko will be escorted to the diplomatic doorway in the back of the White House for his exit, far from probing cameras and obstreperous reporters. It is a vantage point with a magnificent panorama of the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial. On a clear autumn day the air seems to rustle with the presidential whispers that have changed history...
...tuff is in great shape and what Harvard women's soccer coach Bob Scalise calls "the best facility in the country" is a beautiful place to spend an autumn afternoon...
Forget Sears, Roebuck. Nowadays Sears, Tiegs might be more appropriate. In 12 million American homes, the first image Sears customers are seeing as they flip through the new fall-winter catalog is the cover picture of Model Cheryl Tiegs, wearing a cardigan sweater and an autumn plaid skirt, her smiling face and long blond tresses beckoning potential buyers into the magic world of America's largest retailer. Sears has taken a fancy to Tiegs, embracing her in its catalog and TV commercials and identifying itself with her wholesome all-American looks. The chemistry has been sizzling. Just two years...