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It was a coronation fit for Don King. Earlier in the evening Mike Tyson had won a unanimous decision over Tony Tucker, thereby making Tyson the first fighter in a decade to be simultaneously recognized as the World Heavyweight Boxing champion by all three of the sport's ruling bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 17, 1987 | 8/1/1987 | See Source »

...buntinged Philadelphia in honor of the occasion. The original event at the Constitutional Convention was the resolution of a big state-little state fight that, presto, gave states equal standing in the Senate and strength reflecting population in the House. The anniversary proved a high point of Philadelphia's occasionally turbulent Bicentennial festivities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Goes Home Again | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Gorbachev had demonstrated his clout four weeks before the plenum by taking swift action against the military in the wake of West German Pilot Mathias Rust's spectacular landing just outside Red Square. When the Hamburg teenager's single-engine Cessna penetrated some 400 miles of Soviet airspace with impunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Mikhail Gorbachev Bring It Off? | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Matej Gaspar, born last week in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, officially became the world's 5 billionth human. The baby boy received that designation rather arbitrarily. No one knows for sure when the earth's population, which hit 4 billion in 1974, actually topped the 5 billion mark, though demographers suspect it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Population: Baby No. 5 Billion | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

Next month, on Aug. 16 to be exact, Elvis Presley will have been dead for ten years, an anniversary that will be memorialized on a less moderate scale. This is the sort of occasion that is best honored simply, with fond memories and the playing of some choice sides. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: So Long on Lonely Street | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

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