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Normally, meetings of the 13-nation OPEC cartel are accompanied by pomp, pageantry and no small amount of worldwide hand wringing as the cartel's jetabout ministers swoop into distant capitals to push up the price of oil. Yet when word leaked of a secret gathering in Geneva two weeks ago of six of OPEC's top ministers, who had assembled at the invitation of Saudi Arabia to discuss pricing and production strategy, the oil-consuming nations seemed distinctly more relaxed than in the past...
Life in the fashion fast lane is a farrago of pomp and perspiration, champagne and missed meals, glamour and 1 hour workdays. To interview Supermodel Brooke Shields for this week's cover story, TIME Show Business Correspondent Martha Smilgis tracked the high school sophomore through two weeks of stroboscopic contrasts, from a film festival in the Philippines to Rome, where Shields starred in Valentino's spring-summer showing. Along the way were elegant dinners of suckling pig and mango pudding with President Ferdinand Marcos at Malacanang Palace in Manila, a cruise with Mrs. Imelda Marcos on the presidential...
Viewing all the pomp and folks from elegant circumstances, no less a Reagan partisan that Senator Barry Goldwater growled "ostentatious." He objected to such a public display of wealth "at a time when most people can't hack it." Marcia Carter, a Republican civic leader from Houston, agreed. Said she: "The thing that offended me most was the great extravagance at a time when we're supposed to be cutting the budget and showing restraint on all unnecessary frills." Robert Michel, the new Republican minority leader in the House, complained: "At these prices, only those of a certain...
WASHINGTON--Less than 1000 protestors gathered here yesterday to try to deflate the pomp and circumstance of Ronald Wilson Reagan's entry into office--staging a self-styled "People's Counter-Inaugural...
...Republican cloth coat. The Reagans' attire will be a considerable departure from the populist style of the Carters. For his Inauguration, Jimmy Carter wore a $175 suit he had bought off the rack a week before, which was consistent with his announced desire to de-emphasize the pomp of the White House...