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...events chronicled in this week's cover story come as no surprise to TIME readers, thanks in part to its author, Contributing Editor Patricia Blake, who predicted them in a story in the Feb. 11 issue. An avid daily reader of Soviet newspapers, she early assessed the direction of the campaign that was being waged against Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Since Blake for the past three years has also been writing a book about Solzhenitsyn, she is able to describe both the man and his dilemma with authority...
...that Lincoln was called, pointed out how Nixon's enemies were abusing him, then said, "But all they do is shame America ... through it all, our President stands steadfast." Writing in the New York Times, Franklin R. Gannon, a presidential aide, drew even finer lines. "Even the casual reader wary of undue comparisons will be struck by some of the pertinent and poignant political similarities between Mr. Lincoln's presidency and President Nixon's current troubles." Then Gannon declared that Nixon, by his "resolute conduct so far," had already earned some of the words of praise given...
...letter-writing campaign continued with a new twist. Demands for his punishment were replaced by expressions of gratitude that Kremlin leaders had up rooted "the traitor." Only twelve hours after Solzhenitsyn's deportation had been announced on Moscow Radio, Izvestia was able to print a letter purportedly from a reader in Baku, although mail usually takes ten days to reach Moscow from there. Other minor miracles were performed by letter writers from Minsk and Kiev: their messages of approval were also received several days ahead of schedule. Such transparently clumsy tactics were added evidence that the Kremlin had long prepared...
...received some 1,150 suggestions for Man of the Year, for everyone from Super-horse Secretariat to Watergate Watchman Frank Wills. Judge John Sirica, who headed the list of reader nominations, was also the first choice of the editors. "I plan to keep it," wrote one reader when the Man of the Year cover appeared, "as a reminder for my family and myself that there can be hope in the midst of despair...
...were a darkened empty stage, A Woman in the Sky begins with voices discussing an unfortunate old lady who jumped out the window of her lonely cell in Totall Point, a drab, new high-rise apartment in London. Gradually the voices become characters. Scenery is sketched in, and the reader eventually learns that the old lady was a Mrs. Kavanagh, a 76-year-old alcoholic with a string of arrests for public drunkenness. The Housing Council relocted Mrs. Kavanagh in totall Point after her small house was flattened by progress. Like so many of the aged and helpless...