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...locale and sometimes climate, language and hemisphere as well. David Aikman probably faces the stiffest challenge at the moment -establishing a new Eastern European bureau in a 100-year-old farmhouse in West Berlin. He calls it "a forced learning process in the simultaneous skills of driver, messenger, clerk, telex operator and office manager." Aikman went to Berlin after four years in Hong Kong. Both cities, he notes, "are outposts of Western enterprise and freedom within the orbit of Communist states...
...files from Willwerth and White came by telex, Associate Editors Peter Stoler and Gilbert Cant got down to the job of medical mystery writing. Cant concentrated on the history of epidemics in the U.S. and on how scientists identify disease-causing agents. He recalled an earlier medical mystery in TIME: the 1957 case of a woman beauty parlor operator who lived in one of the hottest parts of Florida and whose varied and puzzling symptoms were finally diagnosed as Iceland disease...
...press conference at noon E.D.T., then proceeded to stun his party and the nation with the unexpected: his bold, perhaps desperate gamble for needed convention votes by naming liberal Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice-presidential running mate. By midweek, the word was flowing in by telephone and telex from our correspondents: Reagan had angered conservatives; yet he had failed to attract moderates. His bizarre gamble had not worked. TIME's editors decided that the sudden rush of events demanded cover treatment. With that, Senior Writer Ed Magnuson quietly began work on his 64th TIME cover story...
...Beirut managed to deal quite resiliently with its misfortunes. Even as the war grew ever more ferocious, the structures of state collapsed one after the other, and artillery pounded away, some services continued to work almost normally. Until the very end, gutsy P.T.T. (Post, Telegraph and Telephone) officials kept telex and telephones alive, while Middle East Airlines, the country's flag carrier, flew in and out of a sandbagged airport that frequently took mortar fire, until it finally closed. Food prices soared, but cart vendors always seemed to have fresh produce for sale. Merchants who had lost their shops...
Athens, on the other hand, has everything. "The bouzouki music, the food," says an Arab. "You might almost say the Greeks are Arabs wearing pants." Even Athens' shops and hotels can compare with Beirut's. Airline, telephone and telex service is excellent, and there is still a sufficient amount of modern office space. True, prices are high; the rent for much desired villas with swimming pools in suburban Kifissia has doubled recently, to about $1,000 a month. Even so, points out one recent corporate settler, Edwin P. Hoffman, senior vice president of Citibank, "Athens has the schools...