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...long way since 1932. This week TIME marks the return of the Summer Games to the U.S. with one of the biggest editorial issues in its history. In addition to 15 pages of convention coverage, the magazine contains a 38-page Special Section, by far TIME'S largest Olympic undertaking. Under the direction of Assistant Managing Editor Walter Bingham and Senior Editor Jose M. Ferrer III, Special Projects Art Director Tom Bentkowski, along with dozens of writers, photographers, correspondents and reporter-researchers, put together a preview of the quadrennial event that offers not only a sense of its vastness...
...ster amid cries of protest. Less than three days later, in the early hours of the morning, lightning forked down on the wooden roof of the minster's 13th century south transept. By 2:30 a.m., flames were leap- ing from the medieval masterpiece that is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe...
Waiting can seem an interval of nonbeing, the black space between events and the outcomes of desires. It makes time maddeningly elastic: it has a way of seeming to compact eternity into a few hours. Yet its brackets ultimately expand to the largest dimensions. One waits for California to drop into the sea or for "next year in Jerusalem" or for the Messiah or for the Apocalypse. All life is a waiting, and perhaps in that sense one should not be too eager for the wait to end. The region that lies on the other side of waiting is eternity...
Lilco is not the only power company whose managers are seriously talking about bankruptcy, which has not happened to a major utility in the U.S. since World War II. About half a dozen of America's 100 largest electric utilities are near that drastic step. What is more, these are among the biggest and most respected in the country, and how they handle their problems will determine the response of the entire industry...
...prices: python, polka-dotted and zebra frames, champagne, vermilion and espresso-colored lenses, asymmetric cat's-eyes and jewelry-bedizened sun helmets that cost thousands of dollars. If price is the object, the glittering Optica shop in Beverly Hills has a pair for $35,000. Foster Grant, the largest U.S. manufacturer of popularly priced sunglasses, offers more than 100 styles. Bausch & Lomb, the patriarch of quality shade makers, has at least 200 styles to select from. And people are not shy about choosing. Amanda Brown Olmstead, head of an advertising agency in Atlanta, has nine pairs, which she stores...