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...midst of that debacle, the country was shut down by the general strike, which had been called by the two General Confederations of Labor, umbrella union organizations that are dominated by Peronists. At dawn, when supply trucks are normally bustling through the center of Buenos Aires, the streets looked like a scene from the film On the Beach. The railroad stations that are usually teeming with commuters seemed like vast caverns, and airports were closed to all but military traffic. Shops, offices, cinemas and most restaurants were shuttered. In the industrial belt, factories lay idle. By the union...
...dawn of revolution," said Carlos Fuentes in his Commencement address at Harvard last June, "reveals the total history of a community." An election is the ritual revolution of democratic government, a revolution more telling when it follows 16 years of one man's rule. In naming a new leader we reveal what in us that leader represents. For a newspaper that sees itself as another cog in the bureaucracy, it is enough to cover the candidates. It would be more difficult--and much more critical--to stand back and cover the city...
Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, who supervised the selection and editing of the historic articles, had the formidable task of sifting through more than 3,000 issues of TIME. Some choices were easy: the Crash of '29, the start of World War II, the fiery dawn of the nuclear age over Hiroshima. Others, involving popular trends and celebrities, were less so, if only because there were so many candidates. "Putting the book together was a little like cooking," says Friedrich. "We were always looking for the perfect balance of ingredients...
...victory, with a 6-2, 1-6, 6-1 win, while Schulman and junior Deanne Loonin won the number-three doubles match, 3-6, 7-6, 6-3. But the second-seeded pair of Kaufman and Smith suffered Harvard's only loss of the day, B.U.'s Sheehan and Dawn Olson taking...
...commander of a U. S. base in England said to his airmen: "May I have your attention, please? This is what we have been waiting for. This is invasion morning." His young men went out to their planes, and up into the Channel dawn...