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...voluminous files, Golden wrote and Sydnor Vanderschmidt researched the main narrative story, "Four Days of Peril Between Earth and Moon," while Peter Stoler and Mary Kelley were responsible for the box on "The Brave Men of Apollo." Those stories were edited by Senior Editor Leon Jaroff. Laurence Barrett, with Ann Constable as researcher, wrote the introduction, "Apollo's Return: Triumph Over Failure." Says Golden: "People forget that earlier shots had their problems too. But they were short-lived, and the happy ending quickly obscured the drama." No one is likely to forget Apollo 13 for some time to come...
...time the typewriters began pounding in New York, the editors had 35 different reports from which to work. Edited by Senior Editor Laurence Barrett, the story fell into three parts. The cover on President Nixon and the vote's significance for his embattled Administration was written by Associate Editor Ed Magnuson and researched by Deborah Murphy. The box on the lives and careers of Judge Carswell and the other rejected nominee, Clement Haynsworth, was written by Contributing Editor Peter Stoler. The second box on the Senators at the center of this historic confrontation was written by Associate Editor Keith...
...days. The story details the grievances of the messengers whose traditional loyalty to their rounds has been shattered in a bitter dispute over wages. It also recounts the unfortunate-occasionally amusing-effects of the walkout. Our correspondents from all over the country filed voluminous reports to Senior Editor Laurence Barrett, Writer Peter Stoler and Researcher Marion Pikul. In New York City, where the trouble began, Researchers Madeleine Berry, Patricia Beckert and Georgia Harbison were detailed to sound out the mood and reaction of the citizenry. Other correspondents covered angry strikers' meetings, interviewed businessmen and bankers, Post Office, Government...
...lapses are more the voice of a wisecracking writer than that of a Harvard preppie jock), which also permits brevity by enabling you to describe characters rather than illustrate them. The reader might not accept the words of an author who says. "Jenny was brilliant," but if Oliver Barrett IV himself says so- in the third sentence of the book- what can one do but believe...
Beginning Feb. 1, Abel will preside over a faculty embittered by more than a year's debate over a successor to Edward Barrett, the former dean. Barrett resigned after the turbulent student disorders of 1968, protesting "authoritarian rule by remote, inaccessible powers" at the university. He left behind a faculty factioned between traditional and innovative journalism. When a largely conservative search committee proposed Abel for the deanship last June, rebellious professors overwhelmingly voted it down, citing "lack of consultation" and "undue haste in appointing a man we know little about." But Columbia President Andrew Cordier, prodded by the traditionalists...