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...lawyer by training, Luce had had limited experience with utilities. He was administrator of an Oregon power company in the 1960s and later showed managerial talent as an Under Secretary of the Interior during the Johnson years. He seemed to possess the kind of even-keeled candor needed to deal with irate customers and fretful stockholders...
...critics, the success of such magazines only proves America's declining moral standards, but that success also coincides with increased contemporary sexual awareness, openness, candor. In this the magazines have sometimes played a liberating role, giving space to honest facings of troubling concerns. But they all compete to exploit these concerns and curiosities. Their subject is sex, not love; their emphasis is all on experiencing and experimenting; their message is self-gratification. "I went pubic in 1967," says Guccione proudly -while Playboy was still holding back. He also started a skin magazine for women, Viva. With...
...company." When the CIA's $46 million headquarters opened along George Washington Memorial Parkway in suburban Langley, Va., in 1961, the deceptive highway sign said only BPR, for Bureau of Public Roads. Even Soviet KGB agents laughed at that. Finally the sign was changed to read: CIA. Now candor has gone further. For the first time, a photographer-from TIME-has been allowed to take some pictures of the people and operations inside the pickle factory. Guided public tours of Langley may soon be held, if only on Saturdays, but agents unready to come in out of the cold...
...Candor & Folksiness. These are among the findings of a nationwide telephone survey of 1,036 registered voters conducted in late May for TIME by the opinion-research firm of Yankelovich. Skelly & White Inc. A comparison with a similar TIME survey conducted last March shows that Carter has lost a sprinkling of popularity points in some areas but has registered gains in others. Most notably, voters who feel that Carter is coming to grips with the energy problem increased from...
Much of Carter's popularity continues to be based on his candor, folksiness and straight-from-the-hip moralizing. His ratings since March for providing jobs, maintaining strong defenses and reducing unfairness each improved by 1%. One worrisome finding for the President: in March, 48% of those surveyed said their impressions of Carter had improved since the Inauguration; in the May sampling that figure shrank to 38%. At the same time, in March, only 6% said they had formed a worse impression of Carter since he took office; in May that figure grew...