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COVER: Virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz returns in triumph to his homeland 56 "I had to go back to Russia before I died," explains the 81-year-old pianist, and in a spellbinding performance shown on TV in the West, he infuses his playing with a fire and precision not heard in years. It is a journey that stirs memories even as it writes a coda to his extraordinary life. The visit helps begin a dazzling set of cultural exchanges. See MUSIC...
...going to do very well against the air defenses of a first-class power armed with cruise-missile-carrying submarines and surface ships, Backfire bombers and oceangoing surveillance," says Robert Komer, a former top Defense Department official who is now a consultant with the Rand Corporation in Washington. "The triumph of the carrier was in World War II. We made the same mistake back then when we concentrated on battleships at first. The Japanese proved us wrong at Pearl Harbor." Senator Gary Hart, founder of the congressional military-reform movement, argues that the submarine, not the carrier, is the capital...
Stockman's memoirs, The Triumph of Politics (Harper & Row; $19.50), form a singular document of arrogance. That Washington cannot meet its responsibilities on the budget certainly is true, but Stockman's own failures may have had as much to do with creating the huge federal deficits and the diminished trust in Government economic planning with which we are now burdened...
...courtroom discus sion of a rape; and Exodus (1960), for which he defied McCarthyist blacklisting by hiring Scenarist Dalton Trumbo; of cancer; in New York City. A successful producer-director in Vienna before coming to the U.S. in 1936, he worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, where his first triumph was the masterly thriller Laura (1944). He also acted on stage and in films, often as a menacing Nazi, a role many of those who had wilted under the "Otto-crat's" frequent tongue lashings regarded as entirely appropriate...
...victory of Corazon Aquino was a historic triumph. Her visit to the U.S. was yet another magical event [WORLD, Sept. 29]. The recognition accorded her is a warning to future politicians and a reproach to past leaders of different virtues. Jesus C. Bacala Scottsburg...