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...found a universally respected man to take over for the Justice Department. Coleman, senior partner at the Washington office of the Los Angeles firm O'Melveny & Myers, is well equipped for what he considers "a great opportunity." Born to a middle-class Philadelphia couple, he experienced school discrimination firsthand. "When I was in high school and went out for the swimming team," he recalls, "they abolished the team rather than let me swim...
...fighting around the Guazapa volcano was observed firsthand by TIME Photographer Harry Mattison, the only journalist permitted to accompany the Salvadoran troops for three days during the fiercest combat. Mattison's account begins as he boards a helicopter gunship...
...print? Haig's angry description of Lord Carrington more justly fits the person who leaked a year's notes of private meetings. Haig may now find himself driven to confiding in an ever smaller circle of advisers at some cost to other officials' knowing his views firsthand, and to his hearing theirs...
Page, a grande dame of the stage, shapes a Mother Superior who is at once completely convincing and utterly likeable. Pielmeler's firsthand experience of parochial schools obviously has served him well in one respect: he draws his nuns, if not his psychiatrists, clearly and beautifully. Intelligent, knowledgeable about the world outside the convent (she was married for over 20 years and bore two children). Mother Miriam holds to her faith more fiercely than a sheltered lifelong nun might. She believe she wants to believe not because she can conceive of no alternative...
...workshops, the conference discussed how small changes in the design of buildings, vehicles, interiors, furniture, appliances and utensils can often make independent living easier for the disabled-and for all of us. Industrial Designer Patricia Moore, 28, lived with the aged to learn firsthand about their concerns. One unsuspected problem: fluorescent lighting in supermarkets is much too bright for most old eyes, let alone eyes with cataracts, to read the lettering on labels. Elderly shoppers pick the goods they want by the color of the package. Moore's advice to producers: "Don't change the color of your...