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...right to picture U.S. currency. The case involved a suit filed by Time Inc. after Government agents informed the company that a full-color 1981 Sports Illustrated cover showing $100 bills pouring through a basketball hoop was a violation of law. To prevent counterfeiting, federal law requires that publishers depict bills only in black and white and at less than 75% or more than 150% of actual size. The court turned down Time Inc.'s argument that the right of free expression was improperly restricted; a company spokesman said that Time Inc. would now consider lobbying for a change...
...outright ban on antisatellite weapons would be impossible to verify, and has pushed the idea of developing an ultra modern defense against incoming missiles. The Administration, however, was thinking about proposing some kind of limitations when the Kremlin beat it to the propaganda punch. Each side is anxious to depict the other, particularly in the eyes of Western Europeans, as being recalcitrant on the subject of arms control...
...Soviets also were trying last week to depict themselves as conciliatory. At a press conference eleven hours before Reagan's, chief Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin raised similar hopes for a summit. "We want to have negotiations with the U.S. on a whole complex of issues," he said. But like Reagan, he did not drop the condition that the agenda be carefully worked out beforehand. Also like Reagan, he was primarily concerned with imagery. Neither side wants to be seen by the rest of the world as outrageously bellicose; each accuses the other of being the intransigent party. Reagan said...
Devotion to the ordinary is apparently becoming too predictable for the restless Johnson. His latest sculptures are moving in new and slightly naughty directions. The artist is contemplating one for placement behind shrubbery. It would depict a man furtively zipping up his trousers. For Johnson it represents a common public event: using bushes for bathrooms...
...survey results depict a generally liberal campus. Asked the question "Rate yourself as liberal or conservative on a scale of one to seven, where one is extremely liberal and seven is extremely conservative," 60 percent of the seniors polled placed themselves somewhere on the liberal side of the center, while only 22 percent indicated they were on the conservative side of the center...