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...nation's college-seniors-to-be and invited them to spend the summer in New York City helping produce our magazines and, we hope, learning about life, work and the real world of journalism. The six interns at TIME in this year's crop are midway through their nine-week stint. If the past is any guide, the summer will be humid with surprises...
Without a rain delay, it could scarcely be Wimbledon. But the pause in the third set with Graf on a rampage only stressed the powerful points, backhands and back of the hands that Steffi was making in rising up from her bland opening set to take nine of ten games going away. Tellingly, during the recess, Navratilova sought hurried treatment for a complaining leg muscle while Graf sprawled like a teenager in front of the TV. "Bodies warm up easier at 19 than they do at 31," sighed the woman finished...
...almost nine months following the Oct. 19, 1987, crash, U.S. financial markets failed to install any substantial safeguards to prevent a recurrence. The delay prompted calls for new regulations and frightened individual investors away from the stock market. Last week, in a surprising show of cooperation, the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange proposed safety measures in response to concerns raised by several Government studies of the crash...
There were uncharacteristic calls for restraint from some Iranian leaders and their allies. Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual leader of the pro-Iranian Hizballah in Lebanon, urged that no harm come to the nine American hostages held by Muslim extremists. "I find no justification for making the hostages account for a matter to which they are not connected," Fadlallah said. Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran's powerful and pragmatic Assembly speaker, last week warned against "some amateurish action" that might "remove the wave of propaganda that is now heaped on America's head." By showing moderation, the Iranians apparently hope to press...
...decision comes as the Red Sox begin the second half of their season tied for fourth place in the American League East with Milwaukee, nine games behind first-place Detroit...