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Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal is fond of quoting an observation by Author Theodore White in his The Making of the President 1972 that whenever anyone of consequence from the terrain between Boston and Washington talks to anyone else from that part of the country, each starts with the assumption that the other has read that day's edition of the Times. It is the most complete American newspaper, and it serves to define "all the news" for many of the country's opinion makers by what it deems "fit to print." In international news, science and technology, food...
...assume you believe in something, I some God, something?" the Pueblo councilman Domingo Atencio was saying in a voice as soft as the surrounding terrain: New Mexico...
...never knew where we were going, except in the most general way, and no one back at the office knew how to find me." In those days, he found many of his stories by looking out the window, responding not to deadlines but to the gentler rhythms of the terrain outside Wall Street and Foggy Bottom...
...Anthony Giardina's Men with Debts (Knopf; 266 pages; $13.95), the terrain suits the decade. This story of lower-middle-class yearnings and mid-life crisis has the feeling of - and straddles the sociological distance between - Marty and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. The ground traversed contains the grit of auto biography; Giardina grew up in Waltham, Mass., the setting of the novel. Even the reticence of his characters may reflect home truths: Henna's officemates have Italian surnames, but they scarcely discuss ethnicity. In time with their times, they share his fervor for feeling American...
...giant CH-46 helicopter lifted off slowly from its landing pad inside the U.S. Marine compound, its pilot careful to avoid jerking the huge netted crate that hung like ballast beneath it. With machine gunners at the ready, it whirred low over the beachside terrain and headed for U.S. Navy ships on the horizon, there to set down its cargo just as gingerly. Meanwhile, 400 yds. to the west, a steady stream of landing craft nosed into a heavily fortified jetty and began collecting a seemingly endless line of forklift pallets lashed to more wooden crates. "The beach has been...