Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...synonym for unemployed bum," grumbles John Jerome, who left the editorship of Skiing a decade ago to write for himself and has spent half that time in debt. Warren G. Bovée, acting dean of the Marquette University journalism school, once calculated that some 25,000 citizens call themselves freelancers but fewer than 300 make a living at it. Says Talese: "There is no way you can prosper writing for magazines alone...
...also helps to have help in dealing with reluctant editors. Do not call Meredith, however, or most other top agents. "We won't accept a writer who does only magazines unless we think he'll do a book some day," he says. Explains Agent Henry Morrison: "With a book, you work for two or three days for 10% of a $50,000 sale. With a magazine, you work two days for 10% of a $3,000 sale...
...with. The confrontations have become a ritualized ballet. A steel company announces a towering jump in prices; Washington denounces it; another company posts a smaller increase; the original raise is trimmed down. Last week the ballet had an exceptionally thunderous performance, and it headed toward the same old curtain call...
More important, COWPS Chairman Barry Bosworth and Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss got on the phone to heads of other steel companies, urging them not to follow the U.S. Steel increase. Strauss, who is becoming increasingly influential in the Administration, made the key call to National Steel Chairman George Stinson. National then posted a price rise of only $5.50 a ton, which COWPS pronounced "acceptable." The smaller increase was quickly matched by several other companies, including Bethlehem Steel, No. 2 in the industry, without whose support U.S. Steel cannot make the bigger raise stick. For the record, U.S. Steel vowed...
...some states, surpluses and what to do with them have become a hot political issue. Opponents of Arkansas' Democratic Governor David H. Pryor's tightfisted spending policies are demanding that he call a special session of the state legislature before the May and June primaries to decide how to distribute a $40 million surplus. Pryor, who will leave the statehouse this year to run for Senator so far has refused. When Wisconsin's Democratic acting Governor Martin Schreiber campaigns for election in his own right this year, he may be damaged by charges that the state...