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...Nation 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...
...resignation was a surprise, so was Carter's reaction to it. On Sunday night, while Vance was tossing sleepless in his bed, the White House phone operators tracked down the President's quarry in a hotel in Nashville. At first the tall, rumpled man with the familiar craggy features thought that Carter was calling to discuss the federal budget, or perhaps a fishing trip to Maine. But the President had a different subject in mind: he wanted Senator Edmund S. Muskie, 66, to become his new Secretary of State. Within 36 hours Muskie agreed...
...riding along with rising bond business in August 1978, opened his own firm. But when the Federal Reserve drove up short-term interest rates, his firm had to absorb devastating losses on bonds that no one would buy. After three weeks of harried days on Wall Street and sleepless nights in his Riverside Drive apartment, Gorsetman closed his ofiice's front door. Although he is now looking for another job on Wall Street, he says bitterly, "The market stinks...
Naipaul ∙Living in the Maniototo, Janet Frame ∙Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill ∙Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick Sophie's Choice, William Styron Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey ∙The Living End, Stanley Elkin NONFICTION: Blood of Spain, Ronald Eraser ∙I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann and Samuel Charters ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels ∙The White Album, Joan Didion ∙When Memory Comes, Saul Friedlander
FICTION: A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul ∙ Living in the Maniototo, Janet Frame ∙ Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill ∙ Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick Sophie's Choice, William Styron Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey ∙ The Living End, Stanley Elkin...