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...Times----White's editors decided that shipping wasn't sexy, abolished the beat, and shunted him off to the hinterlands of the suburban Westchester edition. Disillusioned, White quit to become a free-lance writer. In True Bearing, 24-year-old Henry Williams is the last of a long breed of waterfront reporters of a great New York newspaper ("a behemoth, a giant rising twenty-two stories over Sixth Avenue") who, after falling in love, of course, quits to become a free-lance writer when his beat vanishes and he is faced with the impending transfer to the "Verve" section...
...Labor Party has long lived with its left wing in Parliament; 70 of its 268 M.P.s are members of the so-called Tribune Group, named for a leftist newspaper. The "radiclabs" from the grass roots are a different breed; proudly Marxist and in some cases revolutionary Trotskyists. London's Communist Morning Star boasted after the Blackpool conference that the British Communist Party, a scrawny organization with no more than 18,000 members, played "the crucial role" in "the historic turning point in the struggle for a new type of Labor government...
...performed impressively. Launched three years ago, it weighs 20 tons, has as much room as a small dacha (the amenities: a shower, 20 view ports, sleeping facilities for four), and has been occupied for 578 days, a little more than half its time aloft. The Soviets, using their new breed of Progress spacecraft-small, automated single-shot ferry ships-have repeatedly refueled and re-equipped Salyut, with a total overhaul of its inventory of more than two tons of scientific equipment...
...feeding of this new genre, Wolfe avoided mention of its central concern. The New Journalists cared about their subjects. Sometimes the journalists hated their subjects, but they always tried to understand, and get inside. This leap of empathy--even if it wasn't necessarily sympathy--separated the new breed from their predecessors up in the bleachers...
...Messenger Stakes at New York's Roosevelt Raceway by two lengths on a rain-soaked track to capture the Triple Crown for pacers.* Niatross thus became only the sixth pacer in history to win the Triple Crown and assured his place among the super-horses of any breed...