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Some unkind critics might think that Rumania's party boss, Nicolae Ceauşescu, was trying to encourage a, well, cult of personality. Bronze heads and busts cast in his image dot the country. He has twice been declared a Hero of the Socialist Republic of Rumania. His uniform as commander in chief of the Rumanian armed forces is encrusted with medals. He has been acclaimed in the adulatory party press for "exceptional creativeness in philosophy, political economy, history, education, science and culture." Now, as a fitting cap to this imposing catalogue of achievements, awards and encomiums, the diminutive...
...family. First-Base Coach Jim Gilliam, a Dodger for 26 years, died after a cerebral hemorrhage, just two days before the World Series started. Each game at Chavez Ravine began with lowered flags and silence, and the Dodgers wore Gilliam's number 19 bordered in black on their uniform sleeves. On the morning before the second game, sitting together with some Yankees at the Trinity Baptist Church, the players said goodbye to the last of the boys of summer to wear a Dodger uniform...
...blue-gray uniform of Egypt's supreme commander, President Anwar Sadat last week commemorated the fifth anniversary of the October War with an impressive military review in the desert west of the Suez Canal. A bagpipe band skirled It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, as MiG-21 fighters screamed overhead, and 10,000 Egyptian troops-accompanied by a stunning array of military hardware-paraded under a blistering sun. It was one of modern Egypt's most imposing military displays. Nonetheless, the message was that Anwar Sadat was ready to wage peace, not war-albeit from...
...family reunions, the rugged beauty of Antarctica, Frisbee-fetching dogs, the filming of The Wiz, Jackie Onassis in the Manhattan publishing-house office she once occupied, the Shah of Iran in his fortified Caspian Sea retreat, Brooke Shields in a skimpy leotard, Henry Fonda in a Boy Scout uniform, Pope John Paul I in the Vatican, and hot-air balloons over Iowa. Conspicuously absent are the kind of late-breaking news photos that once filled the opening pages of LIFE. The new monthly will go to press two weeks before it is distributed...
...University insists it must negotiate these benefits with all Harvard's unions in order to insure a uniform benefits policy, but workers at the meeting indicated their skepticism of the University's promises. They say instead they want some written assurance they will receive a better benefits package...