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...demands of two political conventions plus a Summer Olympics have placed extraordinary logistical claims on the TIME staff members responsible for housing, food, transportation, security and working conditions in San Francisco, Dallas and Los Angeles. Time Inc.'s contingent at next week's Democratic National Convention will consist of more than 160 people, including 17 correspondents, 16 photographers, 20 editors, writers and reporter-researchers from TIME'S Nation section, and even 21 messengers for copy and film. Says R. Edward Jackson, deputy chief of correspondents, who is in overall charge of convention arrangements: "San Francisco is, after...
Spark once wrote, half whimsically, that in the Book of Job "there are points of characterization and philosophy on which I think I could improve." Her alterations chiefly consist of attempts at clever explication. Job's suffering "became a habit," theorizes Harvey. "He not only argued the problem of suffering, he suffered the problem of argument. And that is incurable." As for the comforters, at least they "kept him company. And they took turns as analyst. Job was like the patient on the couch." But, Harvey concludes, the Book of Job teaches us "the futility of friendship in times...
Opposition to the project is strong and the price tag is high, but it should be supported, because the accelerator has the potential to lead to such important discoveries with benefits hardly forsee-able today. The discovery that atoms consist of neutrons, protons and electrons led to countless discoveries in many fields...
...tests--conducted at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, where Rubbia is researching for the summer--consist of aiming a beam of protons accelerated to an energy of 270 billion volts around a four-mile ring and into beam of anti-protons flying in the opposite direction with the same energy...
Mondale, following the conventional wisdom that a front runner should be aloof, barely appears and never speaks in his low-tech ads, which consist mostly of text and testimonials. Hart, by contrast, is on camera in all his commercials. Both candidates have separate series for each coast: Mondale ads condemning Hart for opposing federal handgun legislation have aired in New Jersey, which has tough state controls, but not in California. Hart's New Jersey commercials show him talking about economic redevelopment on a blacktop swath of the Meadowlands sports complex, which was built on a reclaimed swamp. His California...