Word: bureaus
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Weston's search, which took only three hours, illustrates the variety of information about a typical American that is readily available to any snoop. "And I am only an amateur," says Weston. If she had been a professional investigator she could have tapped the files of banks, credit bureaus, insurance companies and Government agencies even more extensively-and sometimes illegally -to learn details about the Doderer family's investments, debts, shopping patterns, charities, hobbies, social life medical history, drinking habits and morals...
...Thirteen correspondents in seven bureaus worked on the story, along with Reporter-Researchers Anita Addison and Edward Adler. They interviewed youths and their victims, police and judges, sociologists and social workers. The young offenders were often happy to discuss their records; one youngster even posed for photos. The juvenile court justices, wary of confidentiality statutes, were more reluctant, but finally let some of our correspondents visit their courtrooms...
Although we included a few celebrities like Steve Cauthen and Peter Frampton, we asked correspondents in six TIME bureaus to seek out local, unpublicized Americans who have quietly and quickly amassed great wealth. They learned that if superaffluence is not widespread or evenly distributed (a matter examined in our Essay), it is at least spreading. Thanks to inflation, a million is not what it used to be, but there are more millionaires. Out of a wealth of candidates, we selected the subjects we thought the most intriguing...
...correspondents around the world. Madrid Bureau Chief Karsten Prager flew to Tenerife early in the week to begin assembling our detailed account of the tragic crash of the 747s. While he was interviewing the officials involved and the survivors, TIME staffers in London. Amsterdam and our U.S. bureaus talked with pilots, aviation officials and other experts about the entire state of air safety in general...
...discovered that "a word like hokey, which wasn't in use when I was here from 1968 to 1970, is popular now and others, such as dropout, are no longer common usage." Senior Correspondent James Bell, who joined TIME in 1942 and has served in 14 different bureaus, is also busy getting used to a linguistic shift although he has only moved from Atlanta to Boston. "Retuning the ear from Billy Carter to Ted Kennedy is not easy. As George Wallace says, they speak funny up here...