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...private talks with his Soviet counterpart had provided a "good first step" toward the Geneva summit meeting between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev scheduled for Nov. 19 and 20. The comment sent ripples of relief through Helsinki delegates representing the U.S., Canada and every European country except Albania. The 35 delegations had convened in the Finnish capital's modernistic Finlandia Hall to mark the tenth anniversary of the agreements on security and cooperation in Europe known as the Helsinki Accords. But for most of the participating diplomats, the main question, at a time of dramatic change...
...daily pastures the two scraggly remnants of a once expansive flock, is accosted by a tourist from the U.S. The American wants to buy the stone horse on whose pedestal the Indian sits. The Indian wants to sell his goats. One speaks only English, the other, except for the phrase "Yes, no," only Tamil. After much "mutual mystification," a deal is struck. The shepherd returns to tell his stunned wife that he has made 100 rupees off the goats, even as they appear behind him, bleating at the door...
...become a household name--and the likes of "tantamount to" and "may well," "arguably" and "recently." (One of the managing editor's most sweeping suggestions, arguably, was: "Approach with caution any word that ends with ly.") For consistency, numbers below 13 are always spelled out, and contractions are avoided, except in quotations. Particularly troublesome are transliterations from such languages as Chinese, Russian and Arabic. In TIME, Libya's leader is Gaddafi, not Gadaffi, Khaddafi or Khadafy...
...York, Boston, Minneapolis and 370 other cities in the U.S. and abroad discovered that artists had been at work overnight, painting silhouettes of people on streets. The silhouettes were intended as reminders of the Hiroshima victims who, caught outdoors by the blast, were vaporized, leaving no trace except for profiles etched on Hiroshima sidewalks. The arresting images, usually created with plastic stencils and rollers dipped in whitewash, were the work of the International Shadow Project, a network of 10,000 volunteer painters in cities ranging from Penang, Malaysia, to Budapest, Hungary. Worldwide, some 300 project volunteers were arrested, but police...
...shifting balance of power between the players and the owners. For about a century the players were professional gladiators, glorified by the fans and the press, to be sure, but held in bondage by the owners. Until the early '70s, players had little alternative to taking what was offered except to become a holdout. Salaries were relatively low, even for established stars. In 1954 M.V.P. Willie Mays earned $25,000, about the equivalent of what a utility infielder makes in today's dollars...