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All day they had rallied under the hot sun, a vast throng swelling to embrace 450,000 people. It had been a peaceful demonstration, but now as darkness fell, a few among the crowd became restless. Gathered in Makati, Metro Manila's high-rise business district, they began setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Yellow and Red for Aquino | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Instead, Erdosain joins a mysterious figure called the Astrologer in a plot to take over the world. It goes something like this: Give the masses a new religious symbol to believe in ("harness the madman power") and then exploit their zeal to create wealth, in this case by mining gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dyed Dogs | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

As the fire raged, members of the minster staff worked together in the burning building to salvage tapestries, candlesticks, altar crosses and whole pews. Eventually the smoke and heat forced them to withdraw, and the south transept's entire roof "collapsed like a pack of dominoes," in the words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: A Bolt from the Heavens | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

While Michael Jackson fans across the nation eagerly await the Jacksons' upcoming megatour, city fathers in Foxboro, Mass. (pop. 14,200), last week did the unthinkable. They banned a performance there by the Gloved One, citing "security considerations" and fear of the "unknown element" that might descend upon the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Concerts: Laying the Glove on Michael | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

The joke in Britain 40 years ago was that only the thousands of stubby little barrage balloons, tugging at their cables above every spot that might offer a target to low-flying German planes, kept the island from sinking into the sea under the weight of men and machines massing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: Overpaid, Oversexed, Over Here | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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