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ALONG with 800 other journalists, Nation Reporter Jim Willwerth headed straight for Glassboro, N.J., when he heard the news of the impending Johnson-Kosygin meeting. Arriving from New York in the middle of the night, he managed to acquire a sparsely furnished room in the town's only hotel, tacked a penciled sign on the door reading "TIME Magazine, Glassboro Bureau," and was in business. Among the other TIME staffers who joined him were the Washington Bureau's Bruce Nelan and White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey, who had watched the guessing, the maneuvering and finally the hasty preparation...
...cover story, written by Laurence Barrett and edited by Michael Demarest, attempts to assess not only the import of the Glassboro gathering but the whole range of foreign-policy problems faced by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. TIME bureaus all over the world contributed to that assessment, but, sometimes, getting the story out of Glassboro proved hardest. Communications were a shambles, and reporters were reduced to queuing up outside a few phone booths in the yard. At one point, Bruce Nelan was trying impatiently to get a call through to New York on the overloaded trunk line...
...have to travel very far. The place for the first U.S.-Soviet summit conference in six years was no Yalta or Geneva. Rather, as the wife of New Jersey's Governor put it, it was "Smalltown, U.S.A.," the little (pop. 11,689) college community of Glassboro, 135 miles from Washington, near the Colonial farming settlement and crossroads once known as Long A-Comin...
...wide spectrum of world issues that the superpowers alone can hope to resolve, interrupting private sessions monitored only by interpreters with a working luncheon attended by their top advisers. When they parted, it was not goodbye but au revoir; they surprised the world anew by returning to Glassboro for another meeting 48 hours later...
...Place." Kosygin set the tone of the first meeting with his first words to Johnson after stepping out of his limousine: "You chose a nice place." And indeed it was. The venue was Holly Bush, a 22-room gingerbread brownstone, vintage 1849, on the rolling, tree-studded campus of Glassboro State College. The residence of College President Thomas ("Dr. Tom") Robinson, the house is as fetchingly old-fashioned inside as out, decorated with 19th century English prints and figured wallpaper. In the small, green-walled library set aside for the leaders' private conversation, the President and the Premier sat down...