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...Americans, bursting into an England gone drab and gray and plagued with shortages of everything after four years of war, were nothing if not jaunty. Residents of Somerset still remember G.I.s tossing chocolate bars and gum out of passing trucks to goggle-eyed children. According to a popular gag, so much American chewing gum had been tossed in the fountains of London's Trafalgar Square that the pigeons there were laying rubber eggs...
...Panama's only security force. Ostensibly the election was to be the first step toward removing the military from politics, under the provisions of the constitutional reforms approved by referendum in 1982. In fact, Ardito Barletta was hand-picked by the military because of his solid economic background. Drab and bureaucratic, he failed to arouse much passion during the campaign...
These are but a few examples of how dramatically China has changed since a U.S. President last came to visit. The China that Ronald Reagan will see bears little resemblance to the drab and sullen nation glimpsed by Richard Nixon in 1972 and Gerald Ford three years later. The giant billboards that once displayed Mao's quotations now bear gaudy advertisements for cameras, calculators and computers. The farming communes of the countryside, that ubiquitous trademark of the Maoist republic, have in effect been dismantled. Like the imposing façade of the main gate to Peking's Forbidden City, which...
...Register's weaknesses include drab coverage of culture and lifestyles, dismally cluttered section fronts and dim, grainy photos. Although Editor James Gannon, 44, is highly regarded as a political analyst and Corporate President Michael Gartner, 45, is a syndicated columnist on language and usage, much of the writing in the Register is flat. One notable exception: the paper's strongly worded editorial page. During the past couple of years, the paper has been burdened by corporate skirmishing among the owners, the Cowles family...
...funeral parade, carrying a large portrait of Andropov. His full-cheeked, almost youthful face contrasted dramatically with the skeletal, almost alabaster profile that thousands had glimpsed while filing past his coffin. A sea of red floral wreaths followed, adding a brilliant touch to a procession colored mostly in drab grays and black. Then two officers in tall Astrakhan hats appeared, carrying the late leader's 21 medals, including Orders of Lenin and Orders of the Red Banner of Labor on red satin pillows. It was exactly half the number of medals that had accompanied Brezhnev to his grave...