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...somehow, India avoided both a descent into chaos and an authoritarian military backlash, fates so tragically familiar to observers of underdeveloped nations. In managing to stick to a moderate middle path, India remains the "miracle" of the Third World and the largest democracy in history. The Indian Army deserves the largest share of credit for this unique situation...
...special election edition of the magazine has approached the dimensions of this week's issue. It contains 45 pages of election stories, almost twice as many as any such issue in the past. It offers an unprecedented 59 pages of color. It is one of the largest issues TIME has ever published, and it is a record advertising issue...
...assessment of the economic problems that President Reagan must tackle in his second term is widely shared by economists and business leaders. After a first term in which he presided over historic cuts in taxes and social spending combined with a major military buildup, Reagan now must confront the largest and most menacing budget deficits in U.S. history. Along with them have come woes ranging from an unprecedented international trade gap (an estimated $114 billion) to jitters about interest rates and worries about the continued health of the business recovery...
...result was not only the largest canvas of Stubbs' career but the grandest in structure and, to modern eyes, the most suggestive. That immense, glossy brown frame of the horse, floating across one's whole field of vision, has the compulsive power of a dream image. In the interest of decorum, Stubbs left out the wounds and weals on Hambletonian's flanks, but his sympathies remained with the animal: white slaver flecks his mouth, the ears lie back flat, and the pink tongue lolls in the aftermath of exhaustion. The creature is attended, none too reverently...
...world's greatest leaders. We saw her as a shy and much loved daughter of her father, a mother to her two sons, a savior of the oppressed people of Bangladesh, military leader of the Indian army, writer, intellectual, stateswoman, politician, party-leader, tyrant, dictator and leader of the largest democracy in the world. We saw her as a Gandhian, dressed in "khadi," or handspun cloth, tirelessly travelling through the villages of India. We saw her at the White House, resplendent in her brocades, charming President Kennedy. We saw her as an international leader of the non-aligned movement...