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Because Sanjay did not hold a national office, the elaborate cremation ceremony was actually a private service. Flags in the capital flew at half-staff, not for Sanjay but for V.V. Giri, a former President of India who had died that day at the age of 85. But if Sanjay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Death of the Crown Prince | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

The Preppie* label derives, of course, from the clothes in which young aspirants to the gentry are expected to show up at the better preparatory schools on either side of the Atlantic. The term, however, does little justice to the actual look, which, with imagination and some bullion, does anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Here Comes the Preppie Look | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

Today a six-block stretch of Calle Ahumada in Santiago is one of South America's busiest commercial malls. Brightly painted signs pull shoppers into new boutiques stuffed with madras dresses from India, art supplies from Germany and motorcycles from Japan. The adjoining streets are jammed with honking hordes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: An Odd Free Market Success | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

On the basis of numbers alone, the presence of less than 2 million nonwhites should not appear threatening to white Britons. After all, many immigrants tend to take jobs that whites no longer want, such as hospital orderlies, garbage collectors and bus conductors. What has magnified white fears so greatly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Facing a Multiracial Future | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

It is unfair that the south of the world is never treated to a scene so grand and so breathtaking as last month's snowstorm. After the torm, I sat down at my desk and started to write a letter describing it to my younger brother in Madras.

Author: By Mangalam Srinivasan, | Title: Reflections on the Blizzard | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

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