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...TIME cover story requires probing into the psyche and background of the newsmakers it features. This was especially true in the case of this week's cover subject, Governor Mario Cuomo of New York, who is preoccupied by philosophy and ethics as well as politics. Covering him prompted reporters and writers to brush up on theology and study his ethnic heritage in addition to scrutinizing his record and analyzing his speeches...
...Governor's mansion is silent and mostly dark. It is 5, an hour before dawn, as Mario Cuomo sits alone in the small upstairs study writing longhand entries in his diary. It is a discipline Cuomo has engaged in for almost 15 years. Outside, the streets are empty. His wife Matilda is still asleep nearby, and on the floor above, two of their children, Madeline, 21, and Christopher, 15, have two more hours before they wake...
Criticism jostles Cuomo, and he retaliates. From time to time, writers in distant places have been startled to pick up the phone and hear the Governor on the line questioning the accuracy of their stories. Often he accuses critics of bad motives. Says a former close colleague: "Mario cannot treat honest criticism with respect. He views it as a personal attack." By now Cuomo has identified exactly how he responds to attacks. Recently he analyzed himself in the diary. "The first phase is the defensive one," he wrote. "For a short time there is regret, distaste, a desire to return...
...does Mario Cuomo stack up against other Democratic presidential possibilities? To measure his national appeal, TIME commissioned a poll of 1,013 Americans last week by Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman. Democrats and independents were asked about their familiarity with Cuomo and other political figures, their impression of them, and whom they would prefer right now as a Democratic presidential nominee.* The list included 1984 Presidential Candidates Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, Delaware Senator Joseph Biden and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt, as well as Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and the right-wing fringe...
...sense, Danieli was born to be a boss. The company was founded in 1914 by her grandfather Mario Danieli and his brother Timo, who made steel in a primitive furnace. As late as 1955, the firm had only 40 employees. It began to expand during the 1960s under Cecilia's father Luigi, who moved the company from steel production into steel-plant engineering and construction. Luigi had four daughters, but the only one interested in the firm was Cecilia, who started in 1965 as an assistant to her father. Now 72, Luigi has let Cecilia bring in a team...