This week's cover stories on the newly unified and confident Republican Party are only the first half of a journalistic doubleheader. Senior Editor Otto Friedrich had barely sent to press the main story, written by Associate Editor Edwin Warner, when he, Warner and the Nation section's 15 other editors, writers and reporter-researchers left Manhattan to be in Detroit for the opening gavel of the G.O.P. Convention. After several days of observing the political action within and beyond the new Joe Louis Arena, they would return to their offices to prepare a second G.O.P. cover, this one on the party's ticket...
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