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This week's coverage of Liberty Weekend festivities in New York harbor includes the largest photograph ever published in TIME. A shore-to-shore image of the fireworks display at the Statue of Liberty, it spans four pages and is followed by a three-page panoramic picture of Operation Sail ships on the Hudson River...
...need for increased World Bank lending grows graver every day. U.S. and international aid officials were closeted last week with representatives of the second-largest Third World debtor, Mexico. A major oil producer, Mexico has been badly hurt by the plunge in petroleum prices and is desperately trying to renegotiate the terms of its $98 billion debt...
...many shows, too many egos clogging the Grand Canal and not enough people on the switchboard. Even when it is bad it is still good because it is held in Venice--an advantage that few other cultural shindigs can claim. The 42nd Biennale, which opened last week, is the largest ever, featuring work from an unprecedented 41 nations. It divides into two main sections: the national pavilions and a set of shows arranged around a given theme. This year the theme is relations between art and science...
...people cavorting on beach blankets over wine and under moonlight. Then when the original clientele grew older and got married, Club Med added day-care facilities for children and shifted the recreational emphasis from scuba diving to golf and tennis. Now Paris-based Club Mediterranee Group, the world's largest seller of packaged holiday fun, is in the midst of its most radical departure yet: an all-out campaign to lure corporate clients to its 95 villages in 25 countries in all the balmy parts of the globe...
...indictment hardly improves the tarnished reputation of Wall Street dealmakers. Last year E.F. Hutton pleaded guilty to a check-kiting scheme. The Securities and Exchange Commission said in May that it had cracked the largest insider-trading case ever: the $12.6 million scam allegedly engineered by Dennis Levine, a former managing director at Drexel Burnham. The Shearson indictment is the latest chapter in a continuing saga of Wall Street scandal. No one is calling it the last...