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...flap over the Dial grew, the U.S. Postal Service at week's end retreated from its earlier decision to allow the Dial's sponsoring stations to use their cheap mailing privileges to distribute the magazine. Instead, Public Broadcasting Communications Inc. must now apply for its own nonprofit mail permit. Vows Dial Publisher Morton Bailey Jr.: "We're going to fight this thing to the very end. We're going to play hardball on this because we're right." As Bailey comes to the plate, however, he is likely to face some smoking fastballs...
...presidency. One such episode does not a campaign make or break; it is only a fragment of the image of a man as President, an image that the public will gradually construct out of many pieces, some deeply personal, as the campaign proceeds. Yet the China flap stands as a warning to Reagan: he is now in an arena where new disciplines of precision and perceptions apply...
...these tasks usually overlap. Most acquisition editors must be adept with the pencil as well as the fork. And they must not only coax a blocked author into action, but also negotiate with copyreaders, handle the details of jacket design and flap copy, and send galleys out to well-known writers in the hope they will respond with enthusiastic blurbs. Once such jobs are completed, editors must become in-house cheerleaders, urging their publicity, advertising and sales departments to make an extra effort on behalf of their books. The average editor is doing all this on at least a dozen...
...apparently had not been fully informed of the new policy's details when its general outlines were leaked to reporters early this month. By angrily making no secret of the fact that he felt he had been left in the dark, Muskie created a minor but embarrassing flap that fueled speculation about rivalries between his staff and that of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is responsible for coordinating the formulation of such policies. Was Brzezinski, it was asked, already trying to undercut the new Secretary of State? By week's end, however, Muskie seemed generally mollified...
...That flap was inconsequential to the U.S. athletes. What mattered to them was that another Olympics is coming and that so far no one is planning to boycott. For some competitors the loss of the 1980 Games is irreversible; they will retire to pursue other interests. But many of the champs are already California dreamin...