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...Mostly we just ask people to think about the consequences of spending such a high percentage of federal funds for military purposes," Kriss D. Worthington, a third-year graduate student and a member of Ailanthus, said yesterday...
...Henry Kissinger's thickly woven, elaborately detailed memoir, White House Years, down from 750,000 words to some 30,000, maintain its sense of narrative and still retain the breadth, texture and philosophical shadings of the original. If that was not challenge enough for Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss, he also had to guard his work on the project - the three-part serialization of Kissinger's book that begins this week - as if it were a state secret. "We did not want stories to appear in advance of TIME'S own first excerpt," explains Editorial Director Ralph...
Security measures were tight. Kissinger's corrected galleys were hand-carried to New York from the publisher, Little, Brown, in Boston, and stored in a vault at the Chase Manhattan Bank. They were brought by courier to Kriss, who had a 24-in. safe installed in his office for the occasion. Later, he regretted having turned down an 84-in. model when the excerpt drafts and numerous revisions began to bury the office furniture. Photocopying the work, a project that overheated several office machines, had to be done on weekends, when witnesses were scarce. "At home," Kriss adds...
...always," says Kriss, "the toughest question was what to leave out. Each theme introduced in the book is intricately threaded and developed throughout the whole. " In refining and condensing the excerpts, Kriss readily accepted some constructive suggestions from an authoritative source who proved to be a fast, able and understanding editorial aide: Henry Kissinger himself...
Daniel Steiner agrees with Kriss, saying, "There certainly was heavy outwardly-directed political activity, but inward-directed pressures to change the University were much less." Steiner should know--he has handled student protests at Harvard as general counsel to the University and chief aide to President...