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...first term with him, much less a possible second one-though it would surprise even their intimates if they left the White House before their boss did. In the past several years Jimmy Carter has consumed most of their waking hours-and many of their sleeping ones. Says a staffer who is close to both aides: "Working for Carter precludes thinking about what you will do next or anything else but him. We have never been personalities. We have truly felt that to do the job, you have to stay in the background...
Written by ex-Phoenix staffer Fred Barron, Between the Lines recounts the story of the takeover of a once-radical paper by a new corporate management dedicated solely to profits. The plot involves the assumption that a newspaper, like a child, can experience a loss of innocence. Against the backdrop of this loss, several indecently good-looking and almost equally likeable newspaper types play out their individual comedies of love and ambition...
...miracle cloth is moved periodically, and while most see what they consider to be the face of Jesus, others discern two kneeling figures or Jesus standing with a staffer the Virgin Mary. TIME'S Marion Knox, during a visit to Holy Trinity, observed "a vague impression of two eyes, a jaw line, a nose and possibly hair. It's perfectly visible, just as you can spot a horse in a cloud after someone has suggested it is there...
Some reporters wished he had found other things to do right after the press conference; they had not been able to hear the remarks. "You've got to rein in your boy," Henry Bradsher of the Washington Star told a White House staffer. "These offhand conferences just won't do." It probably is a futile plea. Nobody has been able to rein in Jimmy Carter...
...Barren is an alumnus of the Boston Phoenix and the Real Paper). One of the reporters cashes in on his underground experiences by selling a book. A beginner tries to expose a local record bootlegger. Lovers climb in and out of various beds. The new publisher takes over; one staffer is fired; another quits. The paper goes...