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...Jaruzelski was delicately implying that only his intervention had forestalled a Soviet invasion of Poland. Then, in an attempt to show his good faith, he expressed his readiness to end martial law as soon as the situation in Poland "develops successfully." This, he said, could occur at a "not distant date," though he would not be more precise. Jaruzelski gave the Pope two gifts: a breastplate of hussar's armor, from the battle in which Polish troops helped end the Turkish siege of Vienna exactly 300 years ago, and a painting of the Tatra Mountains, in which John Paul...
...demigod because he brought down inflation, strengthened the dollar and set the stage for the euphoric bull market in stocks that began last August. Nearly 80% of 702 executives polled by the investment firm A.G. Becker Paribas gave their vote of confidence to Volcker, with Alan Greenspan a distant second at 5.8%. Monetarist Milton Friedman got only 5.5%, Treasury Under Secretary Sprinkel 2.5%, and Fed Vice Chairman Martin less than 1%. More than half the executives fear a return to double-digit inflation if Volcker is replaced. So bullish is Wall Street on Volcker that Charles M. Lewis, vice president...
...small, unmanned spacecraft looking like the product of a child's Erector Set took off from Florida on a historic mission. Equipped with primitive electronic eyes and other instruments, Pioneer 10 flew past the giant planet Jupiter, providing the first startling close-up view of that distant world. Now the surprisingly durable robot, whose working parts were designed by its builder, TRW, to last only two or three years, has scored another remarkable achievement. Propelled by a gravitational boost from Jupiter, it has become the first man-made object to leave the solar system and enter the realm...
...distant future. Hudlin will soon begin work on a new film, tentatively titled. "The Kold Waves." Though a fiction piece, the movie is based on the experiences of a friend of Hudlin's, another Harvard senior. The film will tell the story of a young white musician who auditions for an otherwise all-Black band and encounters reverse racism...
When professors' salaries are determined, marketplace realities take a distant backseat to a professor's age and experience in the Harvard system. But when the Corporation kicks off the annual process of setting administrative salaries each fall, it looks primarily to two very traditional factors: supply and demand...