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...section's advance story list. Yet for the top editors of TIME and Time Inc., for the 17 Nation editors, writers and reporter-researchers at the convention, and for the magazine's 13 correspondents and ten photographers present, the event became a pageant of sleepless nights and hectic days, hot rumors and cold coffee, convention-floor traffic jams, tired feet and writer's cramp. TIME was blessed with a spacious workroom only a few steps from the floor of Detroit's Joe Louis Arena ("The best convention setup I've seen," said Midwest Bureau Chief...
...Brussels earlier in the The meeting originally was going be one of the periodic gatherings of defense ministers. But Jimmy Carter had urged that foreign ministers also attend in order to signal the West's growing alarm at Moscow's military adventurism. In the course of 36 hectic hours in Brussels, Muskie emphasized Washington's determination to meet the Soviet challenge. Said British Defense Minister Francis Pym: "Muskie repeated the U.S commitment to Europe in the strongest terms I have ever heard...
...body. While his temperature hovered around 101° F, his blood platelets, the tiny bodies responsible for clotting, had diminished precipitously to 20,000 per cu. mm instead of a normal 250,000. Nurses hurriedly rounded up donors of the relatively rare B-negative blood type. The hectic search yielded 15 liters (about 32 pints) of blood necessary for an operation to excise the spleen: according to his Egyptian doctors, the organ had grown so bloated by midweek that there was a possibility it could burst in a fatal hemorrhage. The terse clinical diagnosis of New York Hospital...
Hospital staff volunteering additional time initiated the Brigham program in 1978, Elizabeth Kuzia, a senior social worker in the Brigham emergency unit, said recently. But she added that the volunteers "burned out" from the hectic pace of holding a regular job while being on 24-hour call for crisis counseling and referral...
Bush hit 17 towns and villages, a seven-piece band in tow. He moved easily from cockfight to cocktail party, toured factories and housing projects. When Baker visited a few days later, he kept an equally hectic schedule, visiting shopping centers, dedicating a clinic...