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...also took the cover picture of U.S. Track and Field Star Carl Lewis at the Statue of Liberty. "Not only was this the best assignment I've ever had," says Leifer, "it was the best I've ever heard about." It was certainly one of the longest: 18 months from first proposal to final prints, involving substantial amounts of planning, travel and especially diplomacy. "Persuading star athletes to interrupt their training schedules and sometimes go hundreds of miles to pose for pictures took a lot of cajolery," recalls Leifer. "So did getting officials at the Parthenon to close...
...expected to grow by 4.4% this year and 5.7% in 1985, according to European Community calculations. Six months ago, Britain led the recovery, followed by West Germany. But now other countries are joining the trend-The Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. Even France and Italy, which stayed in recession longest, are showing symptoms of growth...
...Venice Biennale is the longest-running festival-cum-survey in modern art. The first one was held in 1895, and the 41st opened this month in its three dozen national pavilions, set in the public gardens a few minutes by vaporetto from Piazza San Marco. It is, as always, a hotchpotch with some loose thematic strands. The ostensible subject for 1984 is "Art and the Arts"-painting, sculpture and their connections to other media, to their own history, to architecture, and so on. Almost anything can be gathered under such an umbrella, and nearly everything has been, from plaster Apollos...
When Bird seemed left out of the offense in Game 6 at Los Angeles, the Lakers pulled even with one game to go in the longest season...
...average value of an acre of U.S. farm land, including buildings, fell this year for the third year in a row, the longest sustained decline since 1933. Values in Iowa, one of the worst cases, dropped 11% last year and 30% over the past three years...