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Rosalynn (pronounced Rose-lun) likes campaigning on her own. She considers it "a waste of my time" to travel with her husband, observing that "it's a big country out there, with so many people to meet." Her days are surrealistic: she is up and away at dawn, and before she crawls into bed, many hours and several states later, she will have made six or eight speeches, given as many as 18 interviews and held three or four open press conferences...
...technical difficulties beyond NBC's control, however, Pauley was not on hand Monday to serve Americans their morning cup of bad news. Neither NBC nor Pauley will say what went bump in the dawn. For weeks she had clearly been the favorite for the job (TIME, Sept. 13), and NBC had already agreed that she would not have to do commercials, which Walters...
...white-walled old quarter of the capital, Tibetans still rise at dawn to sweep and water the dirt streets, harnessing donkeys while children troop to Chinese-run schools. Old ladies stick out their tongues at foreigners in the traditional greeting of respect. Elsewhere, the new China is being built. Traditional Tibet has become a dying wonder of the world...
Once in Greece, I holed up briefly in a relative's empty home. The stucco house was maybe two kilometers from the nearest village, secluded in a ravine. I hardly saw another living presence there, yet I could hear alarming noises, like clandestine signals, before dawn. At night ephemeral animal shrieks passed through the porous walls and around 4 a.m. sporadic double-toned whistles started picking a course down the incline. A bold spell of moonlight walking told me they were merely bats and shepherds...
Almost forty years have passed since Scarlett O'Hara, spurned by Rhett Butler, sat down on the stairway of her Atlanta house to mull over the future. Now, at last, Scarlett's petty-paced tomorrow is about to dawn-in a new novel and movie. Hollywood Producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown have won the right to produce a movie sequel to Margaret Mitchell's classic tale of the Old South, Gone With the Wind...