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it's a fairly open and fair debate between first quite a lot of people, and then down to the few.

Do you remember what the process was like when Harry Luce was alive?

No, although I don't think it was that different, except that Harry probably had two votes whereas other people each had one vote. But again, going back to what I'd said before, he did not wish to win by votes or by dictation. He wished to win by argumentation.

Do you think there were any of those choices that were real failures in some ways? Are just non-starters or--do any of the particular choices stand out in your mind for any reason whatsoever. Let's rephrase that.

Do any of them stand out.

For any reason.

You mean as being odd?

Yes--unusual, odd, very successful, unsuccessful, whatever.

No, I'm looking back at the last fifteen years. Some of them are odd. I'm sure you'd say that cover of the year 1970, “Middle Americans. Man-Woman of the Year” would be odd. When I look