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...PLACE IN THE SUN SLIM AARONS For decades??Aarons was a society photographer for magazines like LIFE, Holiday and Town & Country. He made the jet set look fetching wherever it landed, from Palm Springs to Acapulco. (That's French soprano Lily Pons, above, at Cap Ferrat, France.) Aarons didn't mean to satirize those scrumptious creatures, their opulence or their strangely bewitching narcissism. All the same, it's hard to turn the pages of this book, brimming with rich folk in full regalia--with their silky red slip-ons, their bikinis and their short shorts--and not laugh out loud...
Beyond that, only one prediction seems safe: Ferraro will be scrutinized, written about, pictured on TV, quizzed at news conferences, debated over living-room tables more than any vice-presidential candidate in decades???if not ever. Indeed, says California Pollster Mervin Field, "apart from a movie star, she will be covered more than any other woman...
...NATO. According to a recent poll in West Germany, 50% of those asked thought cooperation with the U.S. should be "closer," while a mere 2% favored warmer ties with the Soviet Union. Only 6% wanted a withdrawal from NATO, and 56%?one of the highest scores in three decades???said they "liked" Americans...
Irate at the maltreatment of the Chinese, Peking?which had provided Hanoi with an estimated $14 billion in aid over the past two decades???abruptly cut off 21 current assistance projects. In June, as the last Chinese aid technicians went home, Hanoi yielded to longstanding Soviet blandishments and formally jumped into Moscow's economic orbit as a member of the Communist trade alliance, COMECON...
This gloomy view of man's perennial adversaries was written 60 years ago by U.S. Entomologist S.A. Forbes, but his modern counterparts would be hard pressed to find fault with it today. Despite mind-boggling advances in science and technology over the past several decades???the harnessing of nuclear energy, the mastery of space flight, the breaking of the genetic code?humankind has made little progress in its age-old battle with bugs. For a brief time after World War II, newly developed chemical pesticides gave scientists hope that the ultimate weapon against insects had been developed. Indeed, the bugs...
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