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...amounts of planning, travel and especially diplomacy. "Persuading star athletes to interrupt their training schedules and sometimes go hundreds of miles to pose for pictures took a lot of cajolery," recalls Leifer. "So did getting officials at the Parthenon to close the temple early so we could shoot in late-afternoon light and convincing the Chinese that I indeed wanted to shoot at the Great Wall and not at the Temple of Heaven, even though the temple was in Peking and the Wall a 2½-hour drive away." Leifer was aided in his planning by Deputy Picture Editor Michele...
...August, the country stages a massive celebration--the Marimba Fiesta. Summers in El Salvador stay temperate and dry, with late-afternoon showers lasting just long enough to bring the temperature down from...
...they were squared away on separate floors, in hiding places they had chosen during a late-afternoon reconnaissance trip. Jill squeezed into an alcove behind a desk on Level Two West, located at approximately 1590.5 (Scientific Periodicals). Jack opted to play it cooler, slumping as if asleep over a remote first-floor carrel desk crammed with books on the status of women in Vichy France...
...overlooking the canal and gardens. Some 3,000 guards will patrol the palace this weekend, and at the request of jittery U.S. officials, six antiaircraft missiles will be placed around the park. Frogmen have inspected every pool and canal for bombs and killer rabbits; the schedule allows for a late-afternoon gondola ride, if weather permits...
With Rome's ocher-tinted buildings fairly glowing in the late-afternoon sun, Pope John Paul II, 61, made his way gingerly down the steps of Gemelli Hospital, almost three weeks to the hour after being felled by a terrorist's bullets. He appeared gaunt and a trifle pale, but the sparkle was back...