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Less than 72 hours after he took his office, Vice President Walter Mondale was off on a ten-day 22,000-mile tour that would whisk him to half a dozen European capitals and back across the Arctic icecap to Tokyo. His mission: to promise that the new Administration would work to strengthen economic and military ties with its chief allies. On board Air Force Two was TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott. His report...
Hughes plainly saw Maheu as his alter-ego. Maheu was the magic telephone booth into which Hughes could limp and then spring forth as the long-vanished SuperHughes. He could stride out into the world in the form of Maheu, deal with Presidents, governors, bankers, and Mafia chieftains, whisk himself where he wished in an executive jet, throw big parties without a thought of all the germs the guests harbored...
...Limit. Lauda and Hunt seesawed through races in Canada and at Watkins Glen, N.Y. Then came Japan and once more the rain. As track attendants tried to whisk water off the course with bamboo brooms, drivers met twice to decide whether or not they would run. The drizzle continued as fog settled on the track; twilight was coming. Finally, a last vote was taken, and the decision to race was made. Hunt, starting in the first row, skidded through the first turn and took the lead. Lauda, one row back, went once around the course in the blinding spray from...
...minds of downtrodden U.S. commuters and rail travelers, the very mention of Japan conjures up visions of superfast trains and a superefficient railroad system. To a degree, the image is justified. The futuristic Shinkansen, or "bullet" trains, whisk passengers as far as 735 miles from Tokyo to Fukuoka City in the southernmost main island of Kyushu in six hours flat amid plush comfort. That trip costs only $31.15 for a one-way economy-class ticket with a $20.70 surcharge for first-class...
Wielding his familiar giraffe-tail fly whisk, octogenarian Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, 85, this week will welcome more than 3,000 delegates from 152 countries to Nairobi's Kenyatta Conference Center-a building that looks like a 350-ft.-tall hair curler. The occasion: the quadrennial meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), a group set up in 1964 primarily to give poor countries a forum in which to air their economic problems. In its three previous gatherings, UNCTAD has produced an elephantine mass of paper but little of substance. UNCTAD IV, which will meet...