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...indeed to have a friend come from afar?" Gracefully quoting those words from Confucius, Pope John Paul II last week began a five-day visit to South Korea,* a land where exuberant Christianity today all but overshadows Confucianism. The welcoming ceremony for the Pontiff was sedate, since Seoul's airport had been swept virtually clean of onlookers. Extraordinary security preparations, caused in part by assassination threats, were everywhere evident-and perhaps necessary. Sunday morning, three days after his arrival, the Pope was en route to Seoul's Myong Dong Cathedral when a deranged-looking young man dashed...
...soon as his official visit with President Reagan was over, Mitterrand borrowed Air Force One and took off on a five-day, seven-city tour of all things American, from high-tech microchips from Silicon Valley to a down-home barbecue in Illinois...
...This year some 7,000 executives from such firms as IBM, Borg-Warner and PPG Industries will travel to Winter Park, Fla., to hear that message from Philip B. Crosby, 57, perhaps the leading evangelist of quality in the U.S. and author of Quality Is Free. Cost of a five-day seminar: $1,650. Crosby tells the executives that if they follow his strict rules and manufacture a product right the first time, their companies could increase profits substantially...
...this is a long process. Mondale's strategy is front loading. Our approach is back loading." Unfortunately for Hart, this year's primary season is front loaded. During a five-day period in mid-March, 29% all Democratic delegates will be chosen in six primaries and 14 caucuses. In only a few of the states to be contested that week-Wyoming, Oklahoma, Washington-is Hart in a position seriously to challenge Mondale. In several big primaries, such as in Illinois (March 20), Hart-committed candidates are running for fewer than half the state's convention seats...
...diabetics have enrolled in a five-day course at Manhattan's Diabetes Self-Care Program (D.S.C.P.) to learn how to manage their disease better. Two of the women have another goal: they hope to become pregnant and would like to improve their chances of bearing healthy children. What they are about to learn will radically alter the way they live. Says Dr. Lois Jovanovic, their instructor: "We're going to revamp you, soup to nuts...