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...porcelain unit with a hand-knotted silk cord ($495); the shimmering Shellamar Abalone, with its own pearlescent finish ($250) by TeleConcept Inc. of Hartford, Conn. Others are objets de nostalgia: the 1930s-vintage Candlestick ($139) with its separate mouthpiece and earpiece; the Country Junction ($265), which has an oak case and two brass bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dial M for Money | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...other cities, the Interstate went through unimpeded, but with ill effects. During the 1960s old oak trees lining Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans were uprooted to clear the way for Interstate 10. What had been a street known for its black professionals' offices became a seedy strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down a Ribbon of Highway | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...compound. In the growing tension, the Nagy government feared that the Soviets might use any incident to send in troops. When Király arrived with a security unit to be sure the Soviet embassy was not being besieged, he found everything strangely quiet. He banged on the heavy oak door and was finally received by a tall, handsome man in tailor-made evening clothes. It was Ambassador Andropov. Standing behind him, as if on dress parade, was the entire embassy staff. Andropov brushed aside the protest as a misunderstanding and joked that the only Hungarian harassment that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: A Portrait in Light and Shadows | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...music plays softly in the background. A pen-and-ink drawing of Konrad Adenauer, West Germany's first postwar Chancellor, hangs in solitary prominence on one wall. Outside the office of the present Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, gardeners, mow the lawn and vacuum the leaves shed by the towering oak trees that screen the building from the Rhine near by. In an interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Anatole Grunwald and TIME Bonn Bureau Chief Roland Flamini last week, his first interview with a U.S. publication since taking office, Kohl spoke of his strong personal commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Helmut Kohl | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

With the killer or killers still on the loose and copycat poisonings continuing-a bottle of mouthwash laced with sulfuric acid was bought in an Oak Park, Ill., store-officials were increasingly concerned. One special worry: adulteration of Halloween trick-or-treat favors. In Chicago, Mayor Jane Byrne ordered distribution of a million leaflets urging parents to keep a close eye on whom their children visit and what they bring home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extra Suspects | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

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