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...duly noted: trouble with foreign policy, ups and downs with Congress, blacks and liberals, continuing suspicion from the business community. But in the White House family quarters, all continues serene. In fact, the Carters are so relentlessly just-plain-folks that outsiders usually ask, "Are they for real?" The answer is yes, to the extent that reality can exist in the White House, with its 70 or so servants and other household staff, its almost weekly state dinners, its constant reminders of vast power. TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angela spent some time with the First Lady, and provides this latest...
...newspaper every day dropped nearly3% between 1973 and 1975, despite population growth, before leveling off last year at about 61 million. As a result, nervous pubishers have been conducting readership studies to find out how to restyle their papers to keep their customers happy. The readers answer: add more information about homes, entertainment food, leisure and similar daily living concerns that New York and other city magazines have elevated to objects of intense journalistic scrutiny. Says the Los Angeles Times 's new president, Tom Johnson: "People do not want a newspaper, they want a use paper...
...classical version of the College Bowl quiz -with state teams battling it out onstage over the lingua mater. "What case is required for the object of vescorl" shot out Questioner James Minter, 25, a candidate at Columbia University for a Ph.D. in classics. Flashing lights signaled the correct answer: "The ablative." Sample sticklers: "What Italian myth figure changed into a woodpecker?" "What Latin emperor was transformed, in a satire, into a pumpkin?" Answers: Picus and Claudius...
...Senators' eagerness to heap praise on the budget director. In a remarkable turnaround from the deep concern that many of them had expressed only three days earlier about Lance's business affairs, they lobbed soft questions at him, asked even gentler follow-ups, and accepted his answers at face value. Ohio Democrat John Glenn wondered whether "Lance's assets include his closeness to President Carter." Continued Glenn: "None of us can answer that. I will skip that one." So it went for two hours and ten minutes, with Lance beaming broadly. Finally, Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles declared...
What is a maharishi to do when sales start to grow sluggish? One answer: announce a shiny new product. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder and guru of Transcendental Meditation (TIME cover, Oct. 13, 1975), has done just that. TM monthly enrollment slid from its 1975 peak of 40,000 trainees a month to a low of 4,000 this year, partly because the Maharishi invited several thousand of his teachers to TM headquarters in Switzerland to acquaint them with the organization's new wares. The teachers have now brought those wares to the American market: lessons that will lead...