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...kind of prudent hopefulness, positive but well short of jubilant. The distance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had become vast and worrisome. Even an uncertain plan to re-engage is better than hostile solitude. "The main thing is that the talks are taking place," sums up Sir Geoffrey Howe, the British Foreign Secretary. "But don't let's have any terrifically high expectations of sudden change. It's going to be a very long business. It will require a lot of patience from...
...Donatello, or any of the rest of the vast repertory of equine imagery in Western art: horse painting, like "sporting" art generally, tends to be seen as a minor style of aesthetic tailoring, shaped to reflect the blunt amusements of a class not much liked by connoisseurs. Painters like Sir Alfred Munnings, who filled canvas after canvas with accurate replications of poised fetlocks and lobb boots, are despised by art critics; and even in the 18th century, the age of the horse par excellence, Stubbs' attainments were looked down on by his fellow painters...
...ideal attributes in this scheme of things, they also made plausible heroes. The great example is Stubbs' prosaically titled Hambletonian, Rubbing Down, 1800. Hambletonian, winner of both the St. Leger and the Doncaster Gold Cup in 1796, belonged 3 to a rich and deep-gambling young baronet named Sir Henry Vane-Tempest. In 1799 Vane-Tempest put him up against Diamond, another star horse, for a purse of 3,000 guineas. (At the time, a farmer's laborer might have made the equivalent of five guineas a year.) The match drew the biggest crowd and the heaviest side...
Officially, the U.S. has no interest in the outcome, provided the balloting is free, fair and open. But U.S. diplomats are concerned that Sir Eric Gairy, 62, the country's first Prime Minister following independence in 1974, will make a comeback. He was ousted after five years of increasingly brutal, eccentric and corrupt rule. Gairy's successor, Maurice Bishop, was deposed by a hard-line faction of his leftist New Jewel Movement and murdered six days before U.S. troops arrived. The trial of 19 former New Jewel members accused of the deaths of Bishop...
...economists made rapid strides in their ability to sift through the billions of transactions that make up economic behavior and distill them into key statistics that indicate the state of the economy. Few experts have been more crucial in turning the numerical potpourri into some kind of order than Sir Richard Stone, 71, who last week won the 1984 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. A professor emeritus at Cambridge University, Stone is the fourth British economist to receive the award since it was created in 1969, and the first non- American winner since...