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Granted, that is a big if, but that is why your visit is so eagerly awaited. Not many people here care to contemplate what would become of Europe if we did not solve the problems together. The crowded political center would probably not hold, people would turn in other directions for solutions and perhaps to other people with the wrong kind of big ideas. The important thing is that the crucial process of transatlantic consultation has started again. Your visit will lift the spirits enormously, and that is important in itself...
From his new command center at the New York Post, which he now refers to as his U.S. flagship publication, Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch spent last week consolidating his control of his latest acquisitions, New York magazine, the Village Voice and New West. That meant a lot of changes-new faces, new plans. After committing $45 million for two corporations that both lost money last year (TIME cover Jan. 17), Murdoch needs to steer them into a quick turnaround...
...center of the turmoil was New York magazine. Murdoch's peppery new editor, James Brady, 48, fought his way through snow and ice on Monday morning to find his office scarcely less chilling. There to greet him was a sheaf of resignations. Departing were not only the magazine's creator and editor, Clay Felker, but also Design Director Milton Glaser, Managing Editor Byron Dobell (who agreed to stay through a brief transition) and 20 other editorial hands, including such notables as Tom Wolfe, Financial Writer George ("Adam Smith") Goodman, Washington Reporter Richard Reeves, Ms. Editor Gloria Steinem, Press...
...aircraft from the area. The execution site is a closely guarded secret. Even the five-man firing squad will not know the location until shortly before the event. Afterward, according to the plan, a hearse will transport Gilmore's bullet-ridden body to a Salt Lake City medical center; he requested that his vital organs be donated to science...
...years as a helicopter pilot in the Alaskan bush, but his luck ran out when a sudden gust of wind caught his chopper near Juneau, causing it to crash in flames. Nearly three-quarters of his body surface was charred, and doctors at Seattle's Harborview Hospital burn center had serious doubts that he would survive. Yet, after 30 long months of treatment, including ten operations just to reconstruct his burned hands, Charlie is back in Alaska piloting helicopters...