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...Moscow two weeks ago to write this week's cover story on Pianist and Returned Russian Exile Vladimir Horowitz. Since joining the magazine in 1981, Walsh has logged some 50,000 miles a year covering musical events and personalities. In the past 14 months he has visited San Francisco, Japan, London, Paris, Austria, West Germany--and even East Germany, for the opening of Dresden's restored Semper Opera House. "We look for the unusual," says Walsh, "new music of international significance and productions of older music that work especially well or have a special cachet. The only way to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter from the Publisher: May 5, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Francisco-based Pacific Telesis has established a significant presence in several new markets. It owns a small computer retail chain and publishes city tourist guides. A year ago, the firm agreed to buy Communications Industries, which markets radio paging equipment and car phones, for $431 million. It is the most expensive acquisition--some industry analysts have called it too expensive--yet made by one of the Baby Bells. As a result of the purchase, Pacific Telesis should generate $800 million of its expected $9.4 billion in revenues this year through ventures other than local telephone service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Out Lines in All Directions | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...alien notion in the high-living world of network television. Layoffs have hit nearly every part of ABC's TV operation. More than 70 people were let go in the news division; some 300 positions were cut at ABC-owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. Such familiar trappings of the executive life-style as limousines and liberal expense accounts are now frowned on. Programming, too, may soon feel the knife. The network known for such blockbuster mini-series as Roots and The Winds of War is now shying away from these extravagant ventures. Cheap game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Tightening the Belts at ABC | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...through broken streets covered with shattered glass. Hardest hit were the city's slums, where wood and adobe shanties simply crumbled. Many victims were children: 30 were buried under the Don Bosco School, southeast of the city, which collapsed just before students were to go home. Reported Radio Commentator Francisco Espinoza: "I've seen bodies that are destroyed, especially of children. Desperate people are digging among the rubble, looking for dead and wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in El Salvador | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

From Manhattan's Wall Street to San Francisco's California Street and back, the sounds of heavyweight pushing and pulling echoed across the U.S. last week. Takeover tug-of-war, the contest of corporate wiles and financial muscle that has affected almost every major U.S. industry in the past two years, was back as a premier event in the business world. In the nation's top challenge matches, the largest U.S. steelmaker and the No. 2 banking company, already laden with problems, faced off with some ambitious would-be prizewinners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takeover Tugs-of-War | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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