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...stubble. In 1975 when Italian Designer Giorgio Armani started to show clothes that would turn menswear inside out, his models sported jackets of wrinkled linen and cheeks shadowed by whiskers. Says the designer in retrospect: "It evokes something tender, rather than a polished, sharp look." It took almost ten years for the look to travel from Milan to Miami, but while Johnson and Vice flash thrive, stubble will surely survive...
DIED. J. Paul Austin, 70, former president (1962-71) and chairman (1970-81) of Coca-Cola, who broadened the firm's product line with new soft drinks (Tab, Sprite), wines and fruit juices and led it through an expansion by ten times to $5 billion sales and more than $470 million in earnings; of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease; in Atlanta. In 1978 Austin negotiated an exclusive agreement to market Coke in China; the same year he made another deal to sell Fanta Orange in the Soviet Union, ending Pepsi's monopoly on U.S. drink sales there...
Personal computers use floppy disks. FACPACs, a line of disk storage boxes devised by Worrell Design of Minneapolis, are handsome, simple and effective. The lever that fans out and displays ten or twelve disks inside is incorporated into the recessed logo...
Standing amid the lush bamboo groves and rice paddies of northwestern Sichuan province, the U-shaped farmhouse is typical of the local architecture, with a wooden frame, stucco walls and a gray tile roof. Ten families have subdivided the 16 rooms of the 100-year-old structure into 32 cubicles, and its courtyard is dotted with drying pepper bunches and ears of corn. In the center of these crowded communal quarters stand three rooms unused except by the 60 or so visitors who turn up daily to see the birthplace of Deng Xiaoping. But even the smattering of photographs...
...just ten terror-filled minutes last Friday, the civilized world was thus given yet another reminder of its vulnerability at the hands of suicidal terrorists, of the lethal instability that emanates from the Middle East and, finally, of life's terrifying fragility. Responsibility for the attacks was claimed by a dissident Palestine Liberation Organization splinter group. The assaults touched off widespread debate about possible motives, about the Likelihood of Israeli retaliation, and about whether the massacres could have been prevented in the first place...