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Lavishly illustrated with four-color photographs, vivid maps and authoritative-looking charts, the glossy 78-page booklet could well have been produced on Madison Avenue. Instead it came from Moscow's stolid Military Publishing House. Whence the Threat to Peace is the Soviet Union's rejoinder to the Reagan Administration's slick 99-page analysis, released last September, of Moscow's strategic and conventional arms buildup. Many of the claims made in the Soviet booklet are false, but the production represents a quantum leap in Moscow's mastery of military propaganda...
...Reagan White House, where 19 members of the family and close friends will come for Christmas dinner. To accompany the turkey, the President will get his favorite sweet potatoes with marshmaUows and even some monkey bread, a thick, spongy concoction he relishes. The White House is laced with vivid red, green, gold and white decorations. There is a giant bunch of mistletoe in the foyer, a 19½-ft. Douglas fir from Spartansburg, Pa., and the gingerbread house in the State Dining Room has a jelly bean path to the door...
Centuries from now those images will be as vivid and immediate as they are today. "A powerful picture reaches into your heart and just rips it out," says Photographer Eddie Adams People will always have to hold fast to their hearts when they see, as if it were happening before them, Robert Kennedy bleeding on the floor of a hotel hallway or a spectral Neil Armstrong taking his first tentative step onto the moon...
...Technicolor films were rare, but studio photographers like Clarence Sinclair Bull snapped vivid publicity shots of the stars in something less than living Ektachrome. In Hollywood Color Portraits (Morrow; 157 pages; $15.95) Cinema Historian John Kobal has collected 74 of these astonishing pictures. Greats from W.C. Fields to Kim Novak are exposed in ways now unthinkable. A blurred, scarlet-toned Liz Taylor sports thick arm hair; a 5 o'clock shadow darkens Cary Grant's cleft chin; Lana Turner's forehead is marred by blemishes; and the Frank Sinatra of 1945 resembles a textbook definition of adenoidal...
...been destroyed, leaving 62 more Palestinians homeless. At the same time, Israeli authorities gave back 225 acres of impounded property to the residents of El Bira, 13 miles from Beit Sahur, and allowed two deported Palestinian leaders to return to their West Bank towns. The contradictory measures were vivid evidence of Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's emerging carrot-and-stick policy in the occupied territories...