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COVER: Millions of black Americans have made it into the middle class but are paying a price for success
Though their incomes, education and life-styles rival those of their white counterparts, middle-class blacks remain in some ways second-class citizens. Even with the passage of civil rights laws, a color barrier still exists where blacks live and work. Nor has their own affluence resolved ambiguous feelings about the plight of the underclass. -- For black managers the toughest challenge is learning to be the boss. See LIVING.
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NATION: Tower assails his accusers' ethics, stirring a new debate about an old issue: How pure should the Government be?
As the Senate decides the nominee's fate, confusion mounts over where to draw the line in the conduct of public officials. -- Facing likely defeat on Tower, the White House attacks the motives of his Democratic foes. -- Chicago's black mayor is defeated by Dick Daley's son, who may soon become hizzoner, and Jesse Jackson abandons his party's man.
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WORLD: A fallen Greek tycoon says Prime Minister Papandreou helped him loot the nation's coffers of millions
In an exclusive interview from his jail cell in Salem, Mass., fugitive banker George Koskotas finally tells his tale of the worst political and financial scandal to hit Greece in 40 years. -- In Venezuela economic austerity measures provoke an orgy of rioting and murder. -- President Bush stumbles on the nettlesome issue of human rights during his trip to China.
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PROFILE: The quiet Senator who has ended Bush's honeymoon
Sam Nunn lacks sparkle and charisma, but his power derives from a serious devotion to the issues and to the practice of basic politics.
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BUSINESS: A push to overhaul aging U.S. jetliners
To calm growing public concerns about air safety, the aviation industry proposes an $800 million renovation of older planes. -- Eastern Air Lines goes on strike.
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HEALTH: The latest word on what to eat and drink
A new report from the National Research Council urges people to cut the fat, skimp on alcohol, limit the meat, pile on the vegetables and skip the vitamin pills.
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EDUCATION: A TIME report card on choice
Letting parents choose where their children will go to school sounds simple, but the policy excites divergent passions. Bush backs it. Critics say it is racist and unfair.
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SHOW BUSINESS: A look back at 1939, the greatest year of Hollywood's greatest era
They thought that they were making movies, but they were really making magic in 1939, the most glittering twelve months of Hollywood's Golden Age. There was Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington . . . on and on, with stars whose names have lasted a half-century.
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TRAVEL: Do you really expect me to eat this?
Frequent flyers rarely expect to dine well in the air. But some have found the secrets to survival: fly a foreign carrier, order special meals, or bring your own.
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BOOKS: A writer lays claim to his own life story
John Updike's Self-Consciousness is a wry autobiography. -- Paul Robeson portrays a triumph over racism and a fatal attraction for the U.S.S.R.
3 Critics' Choice
8 Letters
12 American Ideas
50 Environment
50 Sport
53 Medicine
55 Technology
70 Religion
70 Milestones
81 Press
82 Cinema
85 People
88 Essay
Cover: Illustration by Petra Mathers; Photograph by Jack Reznicki