A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 16, 1984

This summer the journalistic demands of two political conventions plus a Summer Olympics have placed extraordinary logistical claims on the TIME staff members responsible for housing, food, transportation, security and working conditions in San Francisco, Dallas and Los Angeles. Time Inc.'s contingent at next week's Democratic National Convention will consist of more than 160 people, including 17 correspondents, 16 photographers, 20 editors, writers and reporter-researchers from TIME'S Nation section, and even 21 messengers for copy and film. Says R. Edward Jackson, deputy chief of correspondents, who is in overall charge of convention arrangements: "San Francisco is, after all, one of the...

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