Time

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE SOVIET UNION

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A 28- page portfolio of photographs. Deployed from the Baltic coast to the Bering Strait and admitted to places long inaccessible, 100 top photographers spend May 15, 1987, capturing the U. S. S. R. on film. TIME presents a selection from their forthcoming book, which includes the Ukrainian woman above herding geese at dawn and, on the cover, a school program in the Soviet , Far East -- simple yet arresting scenes of daily existence.

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A portrait in prose of the Communist giant. Touring the Soviet republics, Essayist Roger Rosenblatt listens to the voices of ordinary people and discovers a beauty derived from a sense of life as grief. See Special Section.

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Nation

An icy blast of gloom sends the stock market plunging, war heats up in the Persian Gulf, and Nancy Reagan enters the hospital for cancer surgery. But in Texas a dedicated crew rescues a little girl from her ordeal at the bottom of a well. -- On the Republican right, a muted movement watches Bush and Dole on the rise.

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World

In separate gulf attacks, Iranian missiles hit U. S.- owned and U. S.- registered ships. -- Costa Rica' s Arias wins the Nobel Prize for Peace.

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Economy & Business

More and more, home is where the office is. -- The Seabrook plant may bankrupt a utility. -- Argentina talks austerity -- again.

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Books

Garrison Keillor' s Leaving Home yields humble epiphanies from Lake Wobegon. -- Why an anthropologist died in Africa.

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Nobel Prizes

Inspired and original scientists receive awards for souped- up superconductors, synthetic molecules and antibody genetics.

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Education

Columbia Business School vetoes a $100,000 learn- and- earn incentive. -- Harvard' s B- school blasts a new book.

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Sport

Indoor baseball comes to the World Series: the resourceful new Twins against the old reliable Cardinals. -- N. F. L. players yell uncle.

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23 Scene

126 Music

130 Living

133 People

136 Theater

136 Milestones

Cover: Photograph by Dilip Mehta