Word: burt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COVER: Photographs of daisies and bullet by Armen Kachaturian, Janis Joplin by Dan McCoy -- Black Star, U.S. Soldiers in Viet Nam by Larry Burrows -- LIFE, Robert Kennedy by Burt Glinn -- Magnum, Coretta King by Bob Fitch -- Black Star
...series of air mishaps that have brought angry demands from the West German public for an end to low-level training flights. The Cabinet immediately suspended low-flying exercises until the end of the year and asked U.S. and other NATO forces to do the same. U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt, saying he was "shocked and very saddened," announced that the U.S. would comply...
George Bush? Michael Dukakis? Sorry. Good guesses both, but the correct answer is Richard Nixon. The recollection comes courtesy of Burt Meyers, who covered Nixon's 1960 presidential quest for TIME. And if, as this week's cover story demonstrates, most comparisons between the 1960 and 1988 campaigns are more fanciful than actual, Meyers allows that some things have not changed...
...There was a need for a much more comprehensive facility [for local adolescents] for a range of ailments from poor nutrition to serious diseases to serious depression to other forms of anxiety," said Burt H. Giroux, public relations director for the Cambridge School Department. Parents must give permission for their child to use the clinic...
...Coming from Fleet Street, we didn't think anything was extraordinary," laughs Burt. "It was the American journalists who thought we were unusual. Most of them are corrupted by journalism school into dreary, humorless utopians out to save the world. They are Puritans who should stay on Plymouth Rock. Ghosts? The occult? We don't say these stories are true; we just report them." The methods tabloids use to substantiate their sometimes unlikely stories are often ingenious. To prove UFOs have been frolicking in Wisconsin, reporters will wrangle a policeman or pilot to say "Sure." And in a pinch, some...