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Deng Xiaoping, 81, looking fit and vigorous in a dark gray Mao suit, appeared in the east wing of Peking's Great Hall of the People to greet 60 U.S. business leaders and Time Inc. journalists traveling through Asia on a TlME-sponsored news tour. The group was led by Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Corporate Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan. In the past seven years, Deng, who was once sent into internal exile as a "capitalist-roader," has introduced broad and dramatic economic reforms that have decentralized decision-making and placed more reliance on free...
Like the pickup truck and Interstate 40, Knox fails to fit Hollywood's western stereotype: he is a cowboy poet. Despite the apparent oxymoron, verse has its place on the range, and Knox and his fellow horseback balladeers capture well the cowboy's changing world...
...Einstein had the right idea," says Hulit. "But he was very hard to fit. He wore old slippers or sneakers much of the time. Mostly he went barefoot. His feet were as soft and smooth as a baby's." After measuring, Hulit concluded that the professor just needed bigger shoes...
...Morgan's John Mack became the No. 2. That didn't sit well with Morganites, but this was near the zenith of day trading and the rise of the individual investor. The blue bloods at Morgan needed an Everyman presence, and Dean Witter (once owned by Sears) fit the bill. They caved to Purcell's terms. Besides, on the Morgan side "it was an article of faith that Mack would take over within 12 months," says Benedetto...
...death with utter dignity. At the time, it was difficult to watch John Paul's final two appearances from his window in the papal apartments last month. But when we will watch it in the future, that final frail and pained image just a few days from death will fit in perfectly alongside his other moments of extraordinary strength and courage: standing up to the Communist regime in Poland, calling on Mafia warlords in Sicily to repent, slipping in a private prayer in the Western Wall in Jerusalem...