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Shouting radical slogans from the Cultural Revolution, Jiang Qing was ignominiously hustled out of the courtroom by uniformed bailiffs. The normally grave panel of judges and prosecutors applauded as the disgraced widow of Mao Tse-tung was declared guilty of "counterrevolutionary crimes" and sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. The other nine defendants, each standing in turn to face the court, heard their verdicts with the same passive expressions they had worn since the trial began on Nov. 20. Thus, in a dramatic Sunday morning Peking court session, did China, after a mysterious delay of several weeks, conclude...
...Galeton (pop. 1,500), nestled in a canyon of the Pine River in northern Pennsylvania. "The river is frozen harder than the shady side of a banker's heart," he told TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis. "The rapids are silent, as if they're in an ice-cold grave. There have been no bear tracks for 20 days. God and Lady Nature have whispered in their ears and they're in absolute hibernation. My prayer is for snowflakes aplenty and rain in abundance. All these flush toilets man has created gobble up the water. To find a decent...
...everyone agrees that inflation is a grave problem, why is it so difficult to stop? One reason is that while people like to rail against rising prices, many also derive some handsome benefits from it. They have in effect become a constituency for inflation. Says M.I.T.'s Lester C. Thurow. a member of the TIME Board of Economists: "Suppose you told small businessmen that you could wave a magic wand and bring the inflation rate to zero. They would think about it for a minute and say no. They have made some fixed commitments in loans and inventories that...
...upper class, the decline of distinguished families like the Adamses, and a sustained attack on worldly success by novelists and intellectuals. "Antisuccess," he says, "has been perhaps the strongest strain in American literature of the past half-century. And to be against success is to put ambition itself in grave doubt...
...Gothic cathedrals, they rose gradually across Western Europe, in dedication to a lofty goal: to create more humane societies, in which a solicitous state not only shielded the old and the sick but guaranteed a living wage and a cushion against the hardships of unemployment. The result-cradle-to-grave economic protection far beyond anything available in the U.S.-became European social democracy's proudest achievement. That accomplishment is now undergoing a painful reassessment. No one is proposing to dismantle the welfare state. But throughout Western Europe there is a growing realization that what once seemed a virtually limitless...