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...Jackson Lake, about the only Romney agent in sight was his wife Lenore, who was seen toting a handbag embroidered with the slogan, LET GEORGE DO IT. Only one Reagan operative was on hand. But F. Clifton White, the upstate New Yorker whose brilliant organizational work was a major factor in Barry Goldwater's 1964 nomination, flew in with several of the men who helped him pull off that coup...
Kendall C. Crook of Kokomo, Ind. (Government); R.L. Ehrenberg of Clifton, N.Y. (Physics); Nils E. Ekfelt of College Station, Tex.. (German): John B. Foster Jr. of Monkato, Minn. (Slavic); Andrew M. Lewis of Richmond, Va. (Mathematics); Stephen D. Roper of Portland, Ore. (Biology): Mark L. Rosenberg of Montclair, N.J. (Biology); Martin I. Slate of Quincy (Linguistics and Classics) and Mark V. Tushnet of Maplewood, N.J. (Government...
...Navy Lieut. Commander Wendall Johnson, 33, a former gunnery officer aboard the Viet Nam-based destroyer U.S.S. Ingraham, who is now one of Saigon's key contacts for Thai, Nationalist Chinese and other Allied cooperation with U.S. forces. They include a brace of other, unrelated Johnsons: Major Clifton R. Johnson, 31, of Baltimore, a chemical-warfare expert with the 173rd Airborne, who laid the smokescreen that kicked off an assault on the Viet Cong regiments that Glide Brown's patrol helped to locate; and Captain Wallace Johnson, 27, a former Oklahoma University fullback who now wears the Green...
...pointed to a fatal flaw of the W.J.T.: its lack of focus. "A newspaper should have a distinctive personality," said New York Times Managing Editor Clifton Daniel. "It doesn't matter who runs it so long as it is commanded by a single intelligence and a single concept." Other than that, it does not have to be a newspaper in the traditional sense. "It could be a vastly smaller operation with a different philosophy and outlook," says one publisher. "I've always thought that there was a place in New York for another highbrow newspaper," says Walter Lippmann...
Story in Context. Clifton Daniel, on the other hand, stresses the need for the paper to be entertaining, to provide lighter fare than the news-heavy morning Times. "The afternoon paper," he says, "is largely read by people on the move, who have different expectations from those who read the morning papers. There's the stockbroker who wants the closing prices, the racing fan who wants the results, the office worker who has been penned up all day and wants information about things he has heard piecemeal on the radio or in gossip, and those who want to know...