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...Peres took office ten months ago determined to reform Israel's out-of-control finances. But when he tried to put the brakes on inflation last week, the country came briefly to a halt. With the U.S. pressuring him for action, Peres became the first Israeli leader ever to bypass the Knesset (parliament) with economic restrictions imposed by emergency decree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Battling an Enemy At Home | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...topsy-turvy times has got people all churned up is this: who defines the elite? And then, who decides that you or I do or don't meet those superior requirements? Such queries can drift us into minefields like racism and genocide, which this easygoing amusement will bypass, thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vicomte De Brag Inside, Outside | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

RECOVERING. Carl Albert, 76, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 to '76; from triple-bypass heart surgery, after he was rushed to the hospital with the severe chest pains of unstable angina; in Oklahoma City. A 1980 heart attack severely restricted his traveling and speaking schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 25, 1985 | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...Sorth of Bragadox, when Fragilis sang and Saxaquine of the Quenelux held sway, Arthur Dent awoke one morning in his modest home west of London to learn from a visiting extraterrestrial that the earth was about to be demolished. It had to make way for a hyperspace bypass. What happened next is too horrible to recount, but several hundred thousand inhabitants of the planet earth are familiar with the tale. That is a conservative estimate of the audience for Douglas Adams' 1979 luna tic masterpiece, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a 1980 sequel, The Restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Earthbound So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...heart and is rumored to suffer from throat cancer; John (Jackie) Cerone, 70, the Chicago underboss, who has been indicted with Aiuppa for allegedly skimming Las Vegas casino profits; and Joseph ("Joe Nagaul") Ferriola, 58, who heads the Mob's gambling operations in Chicago and has had heart-bypass surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Days for the Mafia | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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