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Hannifin headed for the phone to alert TIME's editors to the worst space disaster in U.S. history, the subject of this week's cover stories. Boston Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian promptly left for Concord, N.H., the home of Teacher Christa McAuliffe. Houston Bureau Chief David Jackson monitored developments at the Johnson Space Center. Washington Correspondent Jay Branegan pored over the tragedy with NASA experts in the nation's capital. In New York City, Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who wrote the main story, and a 31- member editorial team awaited their telexed reports...
...years. Says Holmes: "Nearly all the people I interviewed, including Ueberroth, had to struggle against doubting Thomases, financial setbacks and physical exhaustion to bring their dreams to fruition. Yet somehow, astonishingly, they all made it." To get a fresh view of the personality behind Ueberroth's controlled demeanor, Robert Ajemian, TIME's Washington bureau chief for seven years, spent an intensive week with Ueberroth, accompanying him to his baseball commissioner's office, to several dinners, even on a Ueberroth search for a New York City apartment. Says Ajemian: "He has a swift, shrewd mind that picks up subtleties of conversation...
With Ronald Reagan's reelection, the operative word in Washington, B.C., is continuity; next January marks the beginning of what could be the first two-term presidency in a generation. In TIME'S Washington bureau, however, Jan. 1 will mark a change of leadership: Robert Ajemian, bureau chief for the past seven years, is moving back to his home town, Boston, to direct TIME'S New England coverage. His replacement will be Strobe Talbott, most recently the magazine's diplomatic correspondent...
...Ajemian joined Time Inc. in 1952 and rose to become assistant managing editor of LIFE. He came to TIME in 1976, and was the magazine's national political correspondent before taking over its biggest bureau. "Washington's contrasts have always been sharp and somewhat eccentric," Ajemian recalls. "The two Presidents I have covered have been opposites in styles of wielding power. Jimmy Carter was uncomfortable with it, Ronald Reagan has instinctively employed it. Power is Washington's industry, and watching its practitioners use it and project it has fascinated me for seven years...
...Ajemian's new assignment as bureau chief in Boston is, he says, "a thrilling homecoming. I started there 36 years ago as a sportswriter and have always been lifted by its character. Its power is less clenched, less sweeping perhaps, but rich with intellect and history and strong, gentle minds...