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...spiciest cases of the decade, and now it may start up all over again. The Rhode Island Supreme Court last week overturned the conviction of Newport Socialite Claus Von Bülow, the Danish-born playboy convicted in 1982 of twice attempting to murder his heiress wife Martha, an ailing multimillionaire, by injecting her with overdoses of insulin...
Says Sam Allis, who has been following Walter Mondale for TIME: "When I look back on this year, it will almost certainly be a blur. I have eaten every known kind of Danish and tasted coffee that was clearly brewed from petroleum byproducts. I have watched...
Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi fired back a missive to the Kremlin stating that his government's aim was "a suitable peace for all in a context of security for everyone." It was the Soviets, said Craxi, who had created "a [missile] disequilibrium which we find unacceptable." Danish Prime Minister Poul Schlüter, whose country has declined to accept nuclear missiles on its soil, responded that the Soviet leader's letter "gave me cause for disappointment and concern." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared that she was "not greatly impressed...
...There is Charles Eames, whose chairs, toys, films, buildings and exhibits, produced with his wife and partner, Ray Kaiser Eames, made good design American. There is the Dane Arne Jacobsen, whose sleek furniture and tableware for a while convinced the world that all good design must be Danish. There are two Italians (Ettore Sottsass Jr. and Marco Zanuso) and a Finn (Tapio Wirkkala), reflecting the international, eclectic diversity of the decorative arts in our time...
GREAT BRITAIN Dearly Beloved A million watched; millions listened to the warm young voices, the sonorous old voices. Billions of words about it were printed, and closely read. In Accra, where the equatorial sun beats down on the white church steeples (relics of a vanished Danish empire), parties were held in celebration. Paris noted it, and Panama. In heedless Manhattan thousands got out of bed at 6 a.m. to hang over radios. Shanghai and Hankow had never seen so many weddings; Chinese brides deemed it lucky to be married on the day that Elizabeth, heiress to Britain's throne...