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They are known as the boys -- and girls -- on the bus, but the TIME correspondents covering the 1988 presidential campaign have spent so much time on airplanes that they occasionally yearn for the pleasures of an overcrowded Scenicruiser. Los Angeles correspondent Michael Riley has developed a love- < hate relationship with Michael Dukakis' 737 campaign jet, which the press corps has dubbed "Sky Pig." "When it's 100 degrees on the tarmac, condensation on the inside of the plane creates a tropical rain forest in the aisle," says Riley. Sometimes the plane seems to fly about as well...
...Angeles bureau chief Dan Goodgame, who has covered both Bush and Dukakis, avoids such pitfalls by packing two light carryon bags. He is also careful to eschew the gonzo antics of some of his peers. Says he: "Socially, I suppose I'm one of the 'bores on the bus...
Goodgame seems to be in the majority this year. "A good time now is getting together with a colleague and transcribing a rally tape," notes Washington correspondent David Beckwith, who first boarded the bus in 1972. Since then, the traditional locker-room atmosphere on the bus has softened. Says Washington correspondent Alessandra Stanley: "Many of us 'girls' have sat in the back and listened to men compare notes on diets, aerobic exercise routines and their infants' teething problems, and watched them indignantly demand yogurt and Perrier from stewardesses vainly trying to push Bloody Marys and peanuts...
Meanwhile, time was running out in different ways for American boxers Anthony Hembrick and Kelcie Banks. Middleweight Hembrick, 22, captain of the U.S. team, missed a bus and never got a chance to fight. Featherweight Banks, 23, should have missed his; he got careless midway through the first round ^ against Regilio Tuur of the Netherlands, ran into a hard right hand and suffered a one-punch knockout that left him unconscious for a full three minutes. "I never saw it, didn't even feel it," Banks said after an overnight hospital stay...
Hembrick and U.S. coach Ken Adams tried to board a 10 a.m. shuttle bus from the Village to the gym. The bus was full, however, so they waited for the 10:30, thinking Hembrick's fight would not take place until after noon. But they had misread the schedule, and arrived at ringside just in time to see the referee raise South Korean Ha Jong-Ho's hand in victory. An appeal was denied. Said a stunned Hembrick: "I'll have an empty spot inside for a long time." Next day U.S. welterweight Kenneth Gould, 21, arrived...