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Winston Churchill called Russia "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." This week's cover story looks inside the wrapping. We have assembled an exclusive 28-page portrait of "A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union," excerpted from a forthcoming book by Rick Smolan and David Cohen, which is surely one of the most thorough attempts to capture the soul of that cryptic country...
...photographs on these and the following pages are the fruit of an extraordinary feat of organization. In the past eight years, Rick Smolan and David Cohen have co-directed projects that captured a single day in the lives of Australia, Canada, Japan and America. Now, after three years of complex negotiations with a government long used to rendering its territory invisible, they dispatched 100 top photographers from West and East to record a single 24-hour period. The result is A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union, culled from 127,000 images snapped on Friday...
...last at-bat, the Giants were five behind Cincinnati and facing a four-game Reds series and maybe the end. But Pitcher Mike LaCoss, a Reds reject, shut Cincinnati down in the first game, and Atlee Hammaker, Mike Krukow and Kelly Downs followed suit. Adding the old sinker baller Rick Reuschel for seasoning, the Giants pulled away...
...performances, which raised $4200 for Phillips Brooks House (PBH), featured New York City-based comedians Ben Creed and Rick Crom...
...Detroit firm that is marketing a $55, 30-in.-high aluminum Pope-shaped lawn sprinkler, called Let Us Spray. Not everyone is afflicted with the commercial bug. Some ticket brokers thought scalping for papal rallies would be a bit much. "Frankly, I think it's sacrilegious," said Rick Kline, of Los Angeles' Front Row Center Ticket Service...