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...cause Asian debts to become threatening would be a continued escalation of global protectionism. The Pacific countries have long kept many foreign goods out of their markets, and in recent years the U.S. and Europe have increasingly responded with moves to limit everything from imported textiles to cars. Suh Sang-Mok, vice president of the Korea Development Institute, asserted that his country, which has a foreign debt of $48 billion, is being squeezed by the trade policies of the industrialized world...
...problems that eventually killed her at age 44. The research is impressive; witnesses range from Bandleader Artie Shaw to the warden's secretary at the federal prison where Holiday spent ten months on drug charges ("To my knowledge," the secretary recalls of the singer's stay there, "she never sang a note"). Best of all are the copious samples of her singing, many of them culled from rarely seen movies and TV appearances...
...minute service of anecdotes, reminiscences and, above all, songs. John Cullum reprised his title number from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965). Meg Bussert and Martin Vidnovic, stars of a 1980 Broadway revival of Brigadoon, performed Almost Like Being in Love. Julie Andrews sang Lerner's favorite non-Lerner showstopper, If Love Were All, from Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet. Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said, "Few men in our melancholy age brought so much pleasure to so many people." Loewe, 85 and living in Palm Springs, Calif., sent a letter addressing Lerner. "It won't be long...
Only Poland could harbor the contrasting scenes that took place within miles of each other last week. In the cavernous Congress Hall of Warsaw's Palace of Culture, 1,776 delegates attending Poland's Tenth Communist Party Congress sang the Communist International. Then, as Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev settled into his chair, Polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski launched into a 4 1/2-hour report declaring that after the "tough ordeal" of the past five years, Poland's Communists are successfully pursuing the "line of socialist renewal...
Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29 will speak to about 450 invited guests about his days as an undergraduate when he rowed crew and sang for the Harvard Glee Club. In addition, President Derek C. Bok and the master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge--which John Harvard attended--will address the dinner guests, said Cristina V. Coletta '87, co-chairman of the celebration...