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This is Einstein's fourth appearance on the cover of TIME since 1929 (not counting a lighthearted 1930 profile of his doting wife Elsa). For Golden, who has been a TIME science writer since 1969, the cur rent explosion of Einsteiniana presented an opportunity to fill a major gap in his education. Golden delved into the growing body of writing on relativity and consulted nearly a dozen leading experts. He also interviewed several of Einstein's former associates and his longtime secretary, Helen Dukas. For Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Reporter-Researcher F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt, working on this week...
...Lowered U.S. barriers to Mexican agricultural products and manufactured goods. Mexico already is the fourth largest U.S. trading partner and wants to sell even more to the north. U.S. restrictions on winter vegetables, which fluctuate according to domestic harvests, are a particular sore point. But any changes in U.S. trade policies would be opposed by U.S. unions and, in the case of winter vegetables, by farmers in California and the South. Moreover, U.S. businessmen would demand that Mexico reciprocate by lowering its trade barriers...
...after stories appeared in the Western press reporting that Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, 86, had married Gertrude Minutic, an opera singer 51 years his junior. According to the unconfirmed reports, which surfaced while Tito was on a "mission of peace to the Middle East," he had taken his fourth bride after divorcing his estranged wife Jovanka, 54. A Yugoslav government spokesman angrily dismissed the stories as a "dirty trick" perpetrated by Tito's political opponents abroad...
...When the season started, I was just hoping we would get ranked fourth or fifth and then bang!--maybe we could surprise someone," Joe Bertagna, coach of the Crimson and a member of the seeding committee, said yesterday...
...music is provided by the likes of B.B. King and Tammy Wynette, and I kept thinking of those late-night stoned raves in which you immortalize your first love affair on film in your head and try to match its moments to your favorite songs: "And then, after our fourth fight, when I'm crossing Boylston Street and I see him I'd play 'Walk On By'...Brilliant...