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...week blacks paid tribute to her. "Africans in this country are walking tall on the road she has blazed," Black Activist Mkhuseli Jack told mourners who gathered inside the church for the 90-minute service. Outside, in an emotional farewell, some 20,000 blacks filled the streets. As the flower-draped coffin was loaded into the hearse, they raised their fists in the black-power salute of the A.N.C. and chanted in the Xhosa language, "She is a soldier." Said the Rev. Allan Boesak: "Molly continues in death what she did all her life. She brings us together...
...Soviet Union, Samantha Smith became America's youngest goodwill ambassador. Even before her tragic death in a plane crash last August, the Soviet press had portrayed Smith as a symbol of peace-loving American people at odds with the policies of their Government. In the U.S.S.R., a diamond, a flower, a street, a poem and a book have already been named in her honor. Now comes a Samantha Smith stamp, worth 5 kopecks, or about 7.5¢. The wave of official adoration sweeping the Soviet Union shows no sign of abating. Schoolchildren in Tashkent have formed an international friendship club...
...mythical. Outrageous excesses and recruiting crimes are so common that honest successes and true champions would be difficult to identify even if the sport were not unwieldy by nature. On the first day of every new year, the country caucuses at a number of 70,000-seat fruit and flower stands in the hope of an ultimate result that is both tidy and moral. As in any morality play, the characters are wildly oversimplified and the ending can still be confusing...
Hailed at 17 as the "Chinese Elizabeth Taylor," she was the most popular actress in the People's Republic and the winner of the Oscar-like Hundred Flower award. Two years later, Joan Chen left her homeland ostensibly to study English literature at UCLA. But she stayed, married a Chinese American and pursued a U.S. career in a succession of lackluster television roles. Now Chen, 23, has finally got her big break, the part of the innocent yet scheming beauty, May-May, in the film adaptation of James Clavell's Tai-Pan. The movie just finished shooting on location...
Summer is the spritzing season, and this year more water than ever is flowing onto the market--for drinking, for fighting acne and even for jet-lag relief. Chantecaille's aromatherapy Flower Waters, far right, come in scents like Wild Blackberry Bush and Roman Chamomile. Shu Uemura's Foaming Cleansing Water, right, uses the brand's signature mineral-rich Depsea Water. And for old-fashioned types who still prefer to drink the stuff, Borba offers six calorie-free waters in flavors like pomegranate and litchi that treat skin problems from the inside out. But at $30 for 12 bottles, this...