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...Chip Weil, 48, a native of Grand Rapids, has been a loyal TIME reader since he was a student of American literature at Indiana University. As a naval officer based for three years in Asmara, Ethiopia, he usually went through each issue more than once. Before arriving here he had a successful 18-year career with the Gannett newspapers; he was a senior vice president of Gannett and publisher of a ten-newspaper group with headquarters in White Plains, N.Y., and, most recently, publisher and CEO of the Detroit News. "TIME," he says, "has always been an icon...
Beginning next week, Chip's signature will appear at the bottom of this column...
...nearly perfect that even less central characters contribute their share to the play's convincing truthfulness. Ducey is sweetly sincere as Willy's neglected but aiming-to-please second son, Happy, who picks up Willy's fractured dream and vows to fulfill it after his father's death. Chip Rossetti puts out a convincing performance as Willy's boss Howard, but it is unfortunate that he has been forced to play three different parts throughout the drama. Two of these are pivotal characters in Willy's demise, and casting Rossetti in all three roles both detracts from his believability...
What complicates the issue is that the electronics industry is as divided as the Administration on these questions. Even as U.S. chipmakers cry for tough Government action to open Japan's vast chip market to increased sales of American-made semiconductors, U.S. computer makers, who stuff their machines with foreign chips, are worried that trade tension could endanger their supply. In recent months, joint ventures between U.S. and Japanese chipmakers have multiplied at such a rate that it is getting hard to tell where one country's interests end and the other's begin...
...beat-up Chrysler and listened to endless anecdotes over tuna sandwiches. "I worried that these were only a wall of stories," he says. "I came to realize that Tip's opinions were expressed through his stories." He arrived at the White House carrying a bag of Mrs. Fields chocolate chip cookies, Nancy Reagan's favorite. When he met her at the Reagan ranch, where she is known to favor jeans, he showed up in jeans. "Bill's like a great character actor," says Peter Osnos, his editor at Random House. "His self-effacing quality allows his subjects their own expression...