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Following the ritual wreath laying at the tomb of the unknown soldier under the Arc de Triomphe-attended by such fellow Socialists as former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Greek Actress and Parliamentarian Melina Mercouri-Mitterrand proceeded to the Left Bank and a new ceremony of his own: a pilgrimage to the Panthéon that provided a television spectacular that was even better orchestrated than Giscard's farewell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Changing Of the Guard | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...inadequacies, he suggested that the old man had been 70% right and 30% wrong. Huang's assessment though lacking in specifics, follows that ratio, and Western diplomats in Peking last week interpreted the speech as a trial balloon. If those masses who visit the Tiananmen tomb do not accept the critique, the leadership will probably go a step further and reveal specific errors. If they do, the way should be clear for a sixth party plenum next summer at which Mao's place in history will be more clearly defined, and out-of-favor Mao followers like Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Mao's Mistakes | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...Southern Writer. This was followed by Nightwatchmen and then by the prizewinning collection of short stories, Airships. During this time, Hannah published a record number of stories in Esquire, where the native Mississippian confused the hell out of a lot of people with stories like "Dragged Fighting From His Tomb," the story of a homosexual Confederate Soldier who butchers his way into Pennsylvania, only to turn traitor to Jeb Stuart. Or "Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet," a story about Vietnam, pro golf, incest and infantry tactics...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Sabres, Gentlemen, Sabres | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

...operations coordinator in the defense attaché's office, to whom he was not allowed to speak (though they did exchange whispers now and then). No sunlight penetrated the rooms. Said Queen: "You couldn't hear the outside world. It was like living in a tomb. I stayed in the Mushroom from late November to mid-March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostages: Tales of Torment and Triumph | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...order to save them from flooding caused by the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s; of unannounced causes; in Warsaw. A leading Egyptologist for 50 years, Michalowski worked on the reconstruction of the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir-el-Bahari in 1961; he also unearthed the tomb of Thutmosis III in the Valley of the Kings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 19, 1981 | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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