Vol. 126 No. 18

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Lonesome Whistle Blowing (Show Business / Cover Stories)
Lake Wobegon's tall tale teller is tickling the radio dial and best-seller list

Friendly Sounds in the Dark (Show Business)
With advice, news and chat, network radio gets its voice back

Love Those Crazy Steps (Dance)
The sexy tango is Broadway's latest craze

Blood, Blonds and Badinage (Books)
A sampler of chillers displays the mystery's range

Diligence (Books)

The Horror and the Pity (Cinema)
SHOAH Directed by Claude Lanzmann

NATION

A Global Family Album
Showing the flag to honor the U.N.

Let's Change the Subject
Reagan puts Soviet adventurism high on his summit agenda

Affluence in Pursuit of Influence (The Presidency)

Thinking Big
'86 may spawn two megaevents

Damage Control
Limiting the cost of AIDS

A Boomtown for Pornography
Houston belatedly tries to combat an unwanted growth industry

West Point Makes a Comeback
But critics wonder if it is training the right type of leader

American Notes

SCIENCE

The Living Library of Plants (Environment)
A new center seeks to preserve 3,000 endangered species

PRESS

Discord in the House of Murrow
Low morale and deep grumbling plague CBS News

TECHNOLOGY

A Threat from Malicious Software (Computers)
Hackers are slipping dangerous miniprograms into big systems

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

A Letter from the Publisher

Playing to the Galleries

Business Notes

Milestones

WORLD

Picking Up the Pace (Middle East)
After months of drift, the peace process shows signs of renewed activity

Putting It Back Together (Diplomacy)
The U.S. tries to mend the fractures from the hijacking

An interview with Deng Xiaoping
"You should give them the power to make money"

Opprobrium from All Sides (South Africa)
As violence continues, Botha defies new calls for reform

Making a Graceful Exit (Tanzania)
Nyerere's peaceful departure ends an era in African history

Home Again (El Salvador)
A government-guerrilla trade

Crackdown (The Philippines)
A tougher line on protests

Among Friends (Communists)
The East bloc meets in Sofia

World Notes

BUSINESS

The Popular Game Of Going Private (Economy & Business)
More and more firms are buying out stockholders

Going for the Gene Green (Economy & Business)
Biotech pioneers find that selling is just as crucial as science

An Early Christmas at Chrysler (Economy & Business)
To end the strike, the automaker boosts wages and benefits

Gulf of Woes (Economy & Business)
Banks decline and fall

A Stock Scoop for Ice Cream (Economy & Business)
Ben & Jerry's superpremium from Vermont goes for the big time

LAW

Judges with Their Minds Right
The President pushes for conservative control of the bench

SPORT

A Gracious War Between the State
Cornering the diamond market, Missouri shows the world

STYLE & DESIGN

Building a Down-Home Utopia (Design)
Florida's Seaside is a new kind of new town, circa 1930