SEE BELOW for MORE MAGAZINES' Exclusive, detailed, guaranteed content description!* With all the great features of the day, this makes a great birthday gift, or anniversary present! Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED. TITLE: TIME magazine [The news-magazine of the century, with all the news, features, and vintage ADS! See FULL contents below!] ISSUE DATE: DECEMBER 3. 1984; Vol. 124 No. 23 CONDITION: Standard sized magazine, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo) IN THIS ISSUE: [Use 'Control F' to search this page. MORE MAGAZINES' exclusive detailed content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date.] This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 COVER: America's Banks, AWASH IN TROUBLES. Inset: Signs of a Thaw in US USSR relations. Cover: Illustration by Nicholas Gaetano. COVER: Buffeted by competition and controversy, banks face a survival test The power and prestige of bankers were once as secure as their vaults, but no longer. Poor management, overzealous lending and bad luck have led to widespread earning declines and a rising number of bank failures. Customers are rebelling against skyrocketing fees, and new rivals are seizing an increasing share of the financial-services business. See ECONOMY BUSINESS. NATION: The superpowers agree to meet in Geneva, amid signs of a thaw Shultz and Gromyko will discuss a resumption of arms-control talks, but the Administration is still trying to settle on a negotiating position. Future agreements could hinge on whether the Soviets have been cheating on old treaties. - Budget planners talk of spending cuts while waiting for Reagan to make the hard decisions. - The U.S. and Latin America crack down on drug trafficking. WORLD: Disaster engulfs a teeming Mexico City suburb THE DEVIL GOT UP EARLY, said the headline. By the time he was done, the inferno had killed hundreds and left thousands homeless. - As the Palestine National Council meets for the first time since the P.L.O.'s retreat from Beirut, Arafat fails to reconcile rival factions. - Libya's Gaddafi double-deals the French but is stung by Egypt. - Striking British miners look to Moscow for support. Press William Ziff splits his magazine empire, selling 24 highly profitable publications to CBS and Rupert Murdoch. Education Many educators are upset about "dumbed-down" textbooks, written to formulas for simplicity and loaded with taboos. Religion In an extraordinary series of discourses, the Pope underscores the church's ban on artificial means of birth control. Environment Around the world, protesters rail at the U.S. for allowing Japan to ignore a ban on whale hunting for four more years. Sport On the wing of the most stirring game of the year, the most cuddly quarterback, Doug Flutie, is about to be dipped in bronze. Video After nine straight seasons in the ratings cellar, NBC leaps to No. 2, and Program Chief Brandon Tartikoff is all smiles. Computers At a hackers' conference in Sausalito, Calif., 130 top programmers plot the future of their arcane, much maligned craft. Essay Baby Fae was a guinea pig in an experiment undertaken to reduce not so much her suffering as that of others. Was that wrong?. Letters. American Scene. People. Science. Law. Art. Cinema. Books. Living. Milestones. ______ Use 'Control F' to search this page. * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED.