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...idea which intrigues Smith is the construction of one or more pedestrian malls in underutilized space in the Square. Pedestrian malls would, after all, alleviate to some extent the myriad parking problems faced by-the Square...
...Dave Roberts and Earl Bell. I fear that if I had not, the tense, close competition which featured more of athletes psyching each other and themselves than actual leaping would have been a more effective cure for insomnia than a bottle of Nytol. Certainly, as the endless, often meaningless myriad of women's and men's track heats was paraded before me, the eye searched hopefully for a familiar face and the blue and red costumes with USA lettering on which to focus...
Switzerland's passion-charged baby-food libel trial (TIME, Feb. 16) has ended in something of a draw. The plaintiff: the multinational Nestle Alimentana, among whose myriad food products are powdered infant formulas marketed in less developed countries. The defendants: members of the Bern-based Third World Working Group. The group had distributed a German-language version of a British pamphlet that charged baby-food makers with causing the deaths of Third World babies by hard-selling their formulas to illiterate mothers incapable of preparing them properly. The Swiss pamphlet was entitled Nestlé Kills Babies. Two years...
...first days of July 1776, written and edited more or less as it would have been if TIME had existed in those days. Under the supervision of Senior Editor Otto Friedrich, a team of 14 researchers set to work poring through archives, letters, diaries and contemporary newspapers, seeking the myriad colorful details that would have been sought by a good reporter transplanted into the 18th century. As the research accumulated?a mountain of some 1,600 pages, over 50 percent more than the amount filed by our correspondents for a regular issue?a dozen writers were assigned to apply, figuratively...
...POLITICAL CHANGES are not Carpentier's major concern here. He leaves rigorous analysis of either Marxism or the Machiavellian method of dictatorship to a historical study. Reasons of State concentrates instead on portraying the myriad cultural changes in Europe and America that resulted from the First World War. The upheaval of the Jazz Age is transmitted to Latin America, where because of an economic boom, they build hideous skyscrapers, dance to "Yes, We Have No Bananas...