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...places to TIME, and the s magazine made rather pat generalizations about peoples and races ("Northumbrians are easily drastic"). But TIME was international-minded from the start. It grew much more so as the old maps went mad and the fate of America became intertwined with distant places hitherto unknown and still unpronounceable. Covering the world beyond America is today one of TIME'S most important tasks...
...through the stars like wind sweeping through wildflowers." The novel's conclusion is a collector's item: "What of Peter Lake, you may ask? .. . Was he able to stop time? ... At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart." Meanwhile, similes and metaphors are platitudes or worse: the city draws a horse to it "like a magnet"; Peter is "wound up like a spring"; another character is "putty in the hands" of a widow...
...their seats to look. Troyanovsky had been put in an impossible position by his government, which at that point was admitting nothing. In reply to the playing of the tape, the Soviet Ambassador could only lamely recite a long catalogue of alleged U.S. violations of Soviet airspace. Apparently unknown to him, Moscow was on the point of releasing a TASS statement admitting that the KAL flight had been "stopped." A few hours later, still looking impassive, Troyanovsky read the new TASS statement to the delegates without comment...
What is known and unknown about the Soviet jet attack...
...taxes on her father's property. That was when Christina began throwing her weight around. She furiously paced the runway, screaming at everyone in sight and demanding to speak with her lawyer and Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. After three hours, permission for her departure came through from an unknown-but obviously influential-source. The incident left red faces in its wake. Said Elefterios Kaloyannis, an M.P. for the conservative New Democracy Party: "We have ridiculed ourselves abroad for the treatment we gave Miss Onassis." Meanwhile, the Ministry of Economy was trying to determine who issued the detention order...