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Betty Satterwhite Sutter, head reporter-researcher in TIME'S Nation section, was one of the few staff members with her own copy of the opus-kept, of course, in a locked drawer in a locked room. With assistance from 14 TIME research librarians, she attempted to verify every fact and figure included in the excerpts. Inevitably, some niggling little problems arose. Should the traditional Chinese phrase for "Bottoms up," for example, be transliterated as gam-bei, the dialect version, as it appears in the book? Or should it be ganbei, the Mandarin version? We settled on the latter...
...turned down several job offers, including one from President Carter, who wanted to make her Secretary of Commerce. Her reasons: she needed time to recuperate from a thyroid cancer operation, and she was reluctant to spend so much time away from her husband. Pfeiffer then worked as a top-drawer consultant to several major companies, including NBC. Last fall, in a surprise move, she became the $225,000-a-year (plus up to $200,000 a year in bonuses) chairman of NBC, responsible to the network's new president, Fred Silverman...
...interviewer who has dropped out to do some soul searching in Southern California; a woman writer with the disconcerting habit of throwing her voice at crucial emotional moments; a dim-bulb movie star and her producer paramour, who keeps his wealth in a sock drawer and begins too many sentences with the phrase entre nous: these are the featured players in New York Disc Jockey Jonathan Schwartz's resonant first novel. At a glance, it may seem another tour of Joan Didion's empty existential horizons -damaged people failing to communicate in a dry land. But Schwartz...
Speaking of women's tennis, the varsity racquetwomen will be out at Wellesley Saturday and Sunday competing in the Massachusetts State Championships. Now isn't that a good reason to use up all those bus tickets you've had in your bottom drawer since freshman year? Next Tuesday, the women will face Tufts for the third time in the last two weeks. (Last weekend the Cliffe squad tied for first place with Tufts in the Greater Boston Tennis Tournament...
Never mind these quibbles; the year of the microprocessor has given game players the best present of all, an opponent who can be kept in a dresser drawer. What is on the way is not hard to guess: in a couple of years the game player's best friend will be the full-scale home computer...