June 28, 1982

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E.T.

Steven Spielberg's Oscar-Nominated Hit of the Enchanting Alien Captures America's Heart

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Ambassador Under Fire

After One Too Many Hostile State Department Leaks, the U.n.'s Jeane Kirkpatrick Lashes Back

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All Soap's Children—some Young, Some Restless—gather to Celebrate the Daytime Emmys

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Art and Servicemen Benefit from Clint Eastwood's Heist of the Soviet Warplane Firefox

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Want to Have Your Pasta and Eat It Too? the Battle Over 'starch Blockers' Heats Up

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All Aboard, Sports! Hotelier James Sherwood Has the Romantic Orient Express Back on Track

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To Wildlife and Dallas Lowlife, Barbara Bel Geddes Gives the Milk of Human Kindness

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For Air Travelers Struggling to Keep Body and Clock Together, Jet Lag Is the Crash After Landing

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Robert Preston

Playing Devilishly Against Type in Victor/victoria, He's Bigger—and Campier—than Life

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Keeping Calm in a Crisis at Kool-Tv, Anchorman Bill Close Persuades An Angry Gunman Not to Turn Killer

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A Man's Home Is His Castle, but Does His Backyard Have to Be An Overgrown Eyesore?

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Charles Fuller Sat Down to Write a Black Billy Budd—and Wound Up with a Pulitzer

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At Home or Overseas, Mark Weinberg Helps the President Meet the Press

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As Time Runs Out for the E.r.a., Eight Women Stage An Ordeal by Hunger in the Illinois Capitol

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Bounced by Baryshnikov, Ballet's Alexander Godunov Finds Solace with Jackie Bisset

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Mailbag

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Chatter

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