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...bleak statistics and sour skepticism. But in her quietly elegant office at No. 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a study in controlled serenity nearing the end of another demanding day. Wearing a sleek black and gold-lamé dinner gown she had chosen for an earlier portrait sitting, she talked animatedly with London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo and TIME'S Frank Melville. On economic issues she was the patient teacher, with some pointers for the new occupant of the White House. On world affairs she was "the Iron Lady," standing up to the Soviet Union. Excerpts...
...wall because you couldn't move around with it on the floor." He spent four months there, volunteering to scrub toilets, mop floors, "do anything that got me out of that hole." He spent many of the hours reading, including The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's grim portrait of Soviet prison life. Says Metrinko dryly: "I can't imagine a better place to read...
Their influence has declined in the past 20 years, while the power of sociologists, economists and political scientists has ris en. The author's warmest portrait of success is revealing. It is of Wallace Stevens, a leading American poet who was also a vice president of an insurance company...
Talented people and the quality of their work are, according to Keylor, the two essential ingredients of a successful magazine. That, in essence, could be a self-portrait. Beyond the prodigious contributions he has made as one of the major personalities in the publishing industry, he has affected all of us who have worked alongside him. The force of his unbounded enthusiasm and energy and his total professionalism have become something of an in-house legend. And he brought these same qualities not only to his job but to such avidly pursued avocations as golf and skiing, at which...
...rank-is the same. Jordan's 29-year-old Queen Nur has mastered Arabic, become involved in her country's arts and environmental movement and, after a miscarriage, borne her husband a son, Prince Hamzah, now nine months old. Shortly after posing next to an oil portrait of Nur at Amman's Nadwa Palace for the photograph shown here, the royal couple announced that another child-the King's tenth-is expected next spring...