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: AUGUST 6, 1984; Vol. 124, No. 6 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: MEXICO CITY: The Population Curse. Inset: Rescue Mission. Banking's Giant Bailout. Cover: Illustration by Joo Chung. COVER: OVERCROWDED MEXICO CITY offers a grim warning to the world: A proud and ancient city verges on becoming the globe's largest megalopolis. Its almost 17 million people (who could become 26 million by the year 2000) face enormous problems: killer smog, shocking sanitation, rampant corruption. The city, appropriately, is host next week to a U.N. conference on the relentless growth of world population. See WORLD. OLYMPICS: A Hollywood extravaganza 10 launches the Games spectacularly: Repeated rituals--the parading athletes, the presidential salutation and the lighting of the torch--make the opening ceremonies memorable. o. In the stunning 3%-hour event, Producer David Wolper's cast of thousands work to create "a 20-goose-bump performance." o. Meanwhile, even the traffic seems tolerable and the air passable as the athletes are primed and ready to go. BUSINESS: The Government puts up $4.5 billion to save Continental Illinois: A heavy run on what was once the eighth-largest American bank forces the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to step in with the biggest bailout of a private company in U.S. history. The move stirs new debate about banking deregulation and Government intervention to save faltering institutions. Strong economic growth and slow inflation will help President Reagan's campaign. NATION: The Gipper hits the campaign trail. P. Letting Ferraro be Ferraro. Are U.S. forces combat ready? A driver runs amuck. MUSIC: With a new movie, a chart-busting soundtrack album and the No.1 single, When Doves Cry, Rock Star Prince is coming out wailing. WORLD: Israel's voters fail to pick a winner, and the haggling begins. . Iran sends intriguing hints. A shaky start for Nicaragua's campaign. BOOKS: In Tough Guys Don't Dance, Norman Mailer mixes metaphysics and murder. Po. That Old Gang o 'Mine offers vintage Perelman. ENVIRONMENT: Struggling to save dying marshes, Florida begins filling in a flood-control river channel built 20 years ago by the Army Corps of Engineers. DESIGN: Using lots of fabric, cardboard and scaffolding, a U.S. team creates a festive, unified look for the Los Angeles Games. VIDEO: ABC has spent four years and $325 million preparing for the Olympics, to which it is devoting a record 180 hours of coverage. PRESS: After showing up nude and naughty in the pages of Penthouse. Vanessa Williams turns in her Miss America diadem. ______ 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.