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...with Thailand and $6 billion with Singapore. Student protesters in Thailand have circulated letters to their countrymen with a blunt warning: "Do not be a slave to Japanese goods." In his August speech, Malaysia's Mahathir noted that 84% of his nation's exports to Japan consisted of oil, wood, tin and other raw materials. Said he: "We cannot and will not remain merely hewers of wood and drawers of water." Japanese businessmen and farmers press for protection from imports just as hard as their counterparts in the U.S. Although Japan's tariffs are generally low, critics point out that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Global Money Machine | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...consist of a collage made from period New York Times clippings. Advertisements for 1912 roadsters, electrical engineer training courses endorsed by Thomas Edison, and a notice that Macy's Department Store will be moving to Herald Square accompany notice of a Washington Senators victory. Rube Marquard and Smokey Joe Wood no-hitters, and boxscores full of names like Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb and Fred Merkle. Indeed, Ritter introduces many players with excepts from Spalding's Base Ball Guide circa 1909, John J. McGraw's My Thirty Years in Baseball, a scene from The Great Gatsby, or a snatch of Carl...

Author: By T. NICHOLAS Dawidoff, | Title: They Stopped Too Soon | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

...best players hold abiding interest for everyone. There is endless dispute over which pitcher threw the hardest; Lefty Grove, Walter Johnson. Bob Feller, and Joe Wood are the leading candidates. Babe Ruth stories abound. The Bambino had "a heart as big as a watermelon, and made of pure gold." He also had a rather large appetite: "He'd stop along the road when we were traveling and order a half dozen hot dogs and as many bottles of soda pop, stuff them in one after the other, give a few big belches, and then roar,'ok boys...

Author: By T. NICHOLAS Dawidoff, | Title: They Stopped Too Soon | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

...concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's list, Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name mine think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence" like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, its a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clinks of psendofacts...

Author: By A Grader and Best Wishes, S | Title: A Graders Reply | 1/9/1985 | See Source »

...called Classic Country Cottage in Reston, Va., is indeed a small (1,500 sq. ft.), compact cottage. Clever manipulation of the two-level interior spaces, however, makes it look and feel much larger. Designed by Woodstock, N.Y., Architect Lester Walker, the house is made entirely of wood, with cedar bevel siding and bright blue trim. This model home was sponsored by the American Wood Council and House Beautiful magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: User-Friendly Winners | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

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