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Even before Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, the fast-rising heir apparent in the Kremlin, touched down last Saturday at London's Heathrow Airport, British officials were busy trying to downplay the importance of his eight-day official visit. The British feared that the trip would focus too much Western attention on his status as the most likely successor to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko. That in turn might weaken Gorbachev's chances and strengthen those of his chief rival for the job, Grigori Romanov, 61, a fellow Politburo member widely considered to be a dogmatic hardliner. Nonetheless, Prime Minister Margaret...
...Angeles Correspondent Melissa Ludtke followed a confident Vice President George Bush on his eight-day trip through eleven states. Washington Correspondent David Beckwith observed the last stops of Geraldine Ferraro's precedent-setting campaign. "Her traveling entourage was upbeat and lighthearted to the end," he reported. "It was one of those occasions in the life of a journalist when you are very aware of watching history being made...
...shuttle Challenger ended an eight-day Earth observation mission Saturday. During its 132 orbits, mission control in Houston commanded a radar camera, able to look beneath land and ocean surfaces...
While the U.S. shuttle coursed through its eight-day mission, the Soviets were marking a significant space anniversary. It was on Oct. 4, 1957, that Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, was launched, its thin, metallic beep announcing that the space age had begun. Since then, the Soviets have scored a notable string of other cosmic firsts: the first animal in space (a dog), the first man, the first woman. The first space walk was taken by a cosmonaut. The first pictures of the moon's hidden side were shot by an orbiting Soviet camera...
...which is now manufacturing a million games a week to meet the demand. This fall stores will be inundated with Trivial Pursuit calendars, cartoon books and pencil caddies. ABC-TV is planning to air a Trivial Pursuit special. And in January the Queen Elizabeth II sets sail on an eight-day Trivial Pursuit cruise, with Abbott and the Haneys aboard...