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...normal life was beginning, ever so tentatively, to return to the capital. Banks opened, residents ventured into the streets again, and vendors reappeared in market areas. But the tranquillity seemed tenuous. While combat troops patrolled the city in olive armed personnel carriers and Jeeps mounted with machine guns, tan-uniformed policemen wielding bamboo sticks stood guard at every street corner. That, however, was no guarantee of law-and-order. Two TIME photographers were attacked by Hindu toughs who smashed the glasses of one and tore two cameras from the neck of the other...
...White House has a different look these November days. The piled-up paint of 150 years has been scraped off the giant columns and intricate carvings of the North Portico. The Seneca sandstone is a light tan with brown striations. The naked surface gives the mansion more depth and a shadowy European flavor. Whoever comes back down Pennsylvania Avenue next January after taking the oath of office as President will be the first newly installed Chief Executive to see the pristine stone since Andrew Jackson's time. Pray that Old Hickory's spirit still resides thereabouts, because...
Shortly after that audience, the four panel members arrived at Magsaysay Hall to announce their findings to the public. They were met with wild cheering and applause. The mood in the room soured as Chairman Agrava formally closed the board's hearings. But when Deputy Counsel Bienvenido Tan began reciting the list of suspected conspirators that the majority of the board was recommending for indictment, there was pandemonium in the wood-paneled hall. Friends and strangers alike hugged one another, tossed flowers into the air and struck up a chorus of the once outlawed nationalist anthem Ang Bayan...
...children have attended six of the institutions mentioned in Lisa Birnbach 's College Book [EDUCATION, Oct. 1]. They found her guide accurate, even to such details as the University of Kansas Tan Man who suns himself on campus summer and winter. There are a few exceptions. Birnbach has miraculously moved the University of Notre Dame from South Bend to Fort Wayne...
Chernenko looked tan and thinner, suggesting that he might have really been on a summer vacation, as Soviet officials had claimed. He read a brief address with the same faint and gasping voice as before his absence. But the 72-year-old Soviet leader appeared to have grown more frail. Rather than pinning on the decorations, he simply presented boxed medals to the cosmonauts...