Word: folder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play opens, a balding man walks pensively to a desk in a dimly lit study. He has come to retrieve a red folder containing his will. But as Muscovites who have been flocking to the new production soon discover, Thus We Will Win is no routine story of squabbling heirs. The character at center stage is Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state; the document he seeks is a political testament in which he warns his colleagues of future perils to the Communist Party...
...phalanx of blue-shirted policemen, equipped with gas masks and steel helmets, blocked the avenue in downtown Guatemala City. They trained their rifles on the six unarmed men who were advancing, like prisoners of war, with their arms held high. One of them clutched a large manila folder. Its contents: a letter to Guatemala's outgoing President, General Fernando Romeo Lucas García, charging fraud in last week's presidential election and demanding a new contest. The politicians never delivered the letter; the police...
...Paris is a collection of posters that includes onetime Member Pablo Picasso's sketch of the dove that became the familiar peace emblem. "Picasso said he didn't have enough time to think up a symbol," Langignon recalls. Suddenly French Communist Writer Louis Aragon reached into Picasso's cluttered folder, picked up a lithograph of a pigeon, and said, "Why don't you use this?" Langignon...
Cummings maintains his deadly stock at two large but unobtrusive warehouses, in Alexandria, Va., and Manchester, England. Visiting the Manchester branch, TIME'S Kevin Dowling noted an elaborate system of files on the desk of a secretary: a folder for every country in the world, explained Cynthia Wixey, including one for Vatican City. Was there, ah, much demand from the Pope? "Mr. Cummings is very thorough," she answered. "And he's an optimist. Maybe one day they'll need new halberds for the Swiss Guards...
...four months of the Reagan presidency, patterns have emerged from the information in the folder that have in some instances hardened prior convictions and at other times produced subtle changes in the President's beliefs. He is certain that the Soviet Union is conducting the most awesome military buildup in history. If at times there seems to be an excess of anti-Soviet exhortation in the President's rhetoric, it may spring from the kaleidoscopic picture of world events that Allen and his aides produce every day. Terse paragraphs tell the story in words. Satellite pictures...