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...maintain religiously that their hordes of soldiers would triumph over any attacker, no matter how sophisticated his weapons. As a result, Peking all but ignored the advances in weapons technology that other countries have been pressing to achieve. Thus while China today can boast the world's largest standing military force, its 3.95 million soldiers, sailors and airmen (compared with 3.67 million for the U.S.S.R. and 2 million for the U.S.) are equipped with obsolete arms...
...capital. His favorite summer retreat is the Adriatic island of Brioni, while his winters are spent at a cliffside villa in Igalo, on the southern tip of Yugoslavia. He still indulges his passion for hunting: last year the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug solemnly reported that he had shot the largest ibex ever killed in the Slovene mountains. He is also an inveterate movie watcher, favoring westerns and detective films. He lives alone, having a year ago banished from public view a third wife, Jovanka, 32 years his junior. She had apparently incurred Tito's displeasure by promoting the careers...
...largest, if not indisputably the greatest, sporting event in the world. Two years ago 104 national teams, with the best talent each home country could assemble and train, be gan to play elimination rounds all over the globe. This month the 14 survivors and the West German team, the defending champions, moved to Argentina to join the host country in an exhausting series of round-robin matches for the World Cup, which is held every four years to decide who rules soccer. The play was only fit fully brilliant, and it produced no wonder team, no commanding individual star...
...veteran, based in Berlin, the Bösendorfer is part of a tiny musical elite: what aficionados consider the triumvirate of pianistic excellence. But in price and - some think - even tone, Bösendorfer has the edge. Its 9-ft. 6-in. grand costs $38,000 (Steinway's largest U.S. model, 8 ft. 11% in., costs $17,220), and its smallest piano, 5 ft. 8 in., goes for $16,500 ($8,240 for a comparable U.S. Steinway...
...cities, the green Holiday Inn marquee and the yellow McDonald's arches have company: the red steeple housing a black plastic nonringing bell, the symbol of Alabama-based Kinder-Care Learning Centers, Inc. By offering a service that is safe, uniform and reasonably priced, it has become the largest network of places where parents can deposit offspring for a few liberating hours...