ALONG with 800 other journalists, Nation Reporter Jim Willwerth headed straight for Glassboro, N.J., when he heard the news of the impending Johnson-Kosygin meeting. Arriving from New York in the middle of the night, he managed to acquire a sparsely furnished room in the town's only hotel, tacked a penciled sign on the door reading "TIME Magazine, Glassboro Bureau," and was in business. Among the other TIME staffers who joined him were the Washington Bureau's Bruce Nelan and White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey, who had watched the guessing, the maneuvering and finally the hasty preparation that preceded the meeting, sticking close to Lyndon Johnson throughout.

Our cover story, written by Laurence Barrett and edited by Michael Demarest, attempts to assess not only the import of the Glassboro gathering but the whole range of foreign-policy problems faced by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. TIME bureaus all over the world contributed to that assessment, but, sometimes, getting the story out of Glassboro proved hardest. Communications were a shambles, and reporters were reduced to queuing up outside a few phone booths in the yard. At one point, Bruce Nelan was trying impatiently to get a call through to New York on the overloaded trunk line. As he waited and waited, a Japanese newsman appeared at the phone next to him, asked for a Tokyo number, and got it instantly.

Another member of our Washington bureau made news himself last week. On the Cal 40 sloop, Lancetilla II, owned and skippered by him, Economics Correspondent Juan Cameron won the Annapolis-Newport regatta, which this year proved to be one of the roughest in memory. Among Cameron's crew were John Wilhelm, also of the Washington bureau, Norris Brock, a TIME-LIFE Broadcast cameraman, Carter Brown, assistant director of the National Gallery, and Robert Amory, former deputy director of the CIA. Gales of up to 55 miles closed in about a day out, and from the time they left Chesapeake Bay, Cameron and company saw no other boats. The Lancetilla's electronic gear gave out, including the speed indicator and the radio direction finder, requiring navigation by dead reckoning.

The wind ripped out her stove (not that anybody was able to keep any food down anyway). Cameron pressed on with only his storm sails flying, not realizing at the time that of the 91 ships starting, one sank, nine were demasted, and another 26 turned back. The Lancetilla came in first in its second division and ahead of all but four of the first-division boats, winning the coveted Blue Water Bowl with a corrected time of 72 hr. 27 min. 28 sec. Said one of Cameron's exultant colleagues: "Does Chichester need a bosun on his next voyage?"

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