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MOST CANDID APPRAISAL OF THE VICE PRESIDENCY. Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson's explanation of why he did not want to be considered for the job. "My wife and I sat down and discussed it, and we made a list of the pros and cons. One side was this long," he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans: The Envelope, Please . . | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

The event has aroused genuine political passion among ordinary Soviets, for many a first in their lifetime. Soviet journalists have turned into political reporters, and ordinary citizens are joining with zest in the preparations for the conference. Every day the newspapers are filled with stories of rigged delegate elections and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union The First Hurrah | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

Most inmates of the state penitentiary in Parchman, Miss., are run-of-the- mill, old-style cons. But a few may have switched to high-tech crime, diverting prison products for profit. When a trailerload of cotton rolled out of the pen, its weight seemed in good order on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: Snitch a Bale Of Cotton | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Nitze seemed to take his revenge against his former friends and colleagues who fared better in the new Administration. One was Paul Warnke, who had worked closely with Nitze in the Pentagon during Lyndon Johnson's presidency. When Warnke was nominated to be Carter's chief arms-control negotiator, Nitze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms and the Man: Paul Nitze | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Half comedy, half social commentary, Gillette takes place against the backdrop of oil rigs and wide-open blue sky. It tells of the types drawn to the fast cash and wild living of Gillette--roughnecks, prostitutes, ex-cons--and focuses on the doomed adventures of Mickey Hollister (John Bottoms) and...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Oil Gluttony | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

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