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...selection and presentation of Images '83 was largely done by Special Projects Art Director Tom Bentkowski and Picture Researcher Mary Anne Golon, under the supervision of Executive Editor Ronald Kriss. Says Kriss, who has edited Images for the past five years: "We don't try to be comprehensive. We look first for the best pictures, then for those that illustrate major news events. Fortunately, the best news stories often generate the best pictures...
During the past ten weeks, Golon has looked at more than 20,000 photographs. After reducing this formidable total to 600, she, Bentkowski and Kriss made the final selections for the 22 pages of Images (plus two pages of Farewell obituaries). Says Golon: "It was a little like putting Niagara Falls through a sieve, but working with the world's best pictures is exhilarating...
Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss, who directed the overall project, was struck by how often the magazine zeroed in on the big story. "When you try to pack the whole world into relatively few pages," says Kriss, "you're bound to miss now and again. But over the years, TIME has achieved a remarkable record in sensing early on what would be important not just next week, but a year or ten years or even 60 years later...
...resulting narrative, which appears in this issue, was edited by Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss, who also excerpted White's 1978 book In Search of History for TIME. Reporter-Researcher Peggy Berman, who checked the independently verifiable material in the manuscript, had also worked with White on the earlier excerpts. Says Kriss: "White has a keen sense of drama and a great fascination with place. It is a pleasure to have his work in TIME once again...
Last spring, at the direction of Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss, hundreds of pages of reporting on Brezhnev and the succession began to arrive from correspondents, notably Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof, Washington Correspondent Bruce Nelan, who had just returned from Moscow, and Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who had translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs...