Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every issue of TIME, our correspondents and reporter-researchers conduct scores of interviews. The results, carefully selected, appear in many stories as lengthy quotations or brief flashes of information, opinion and analysis. But at times we believe in presenting interviews at greater length, to convey not only information but the quality and style of a personality. This week's issue contains an unusual assortment of such interviews. Two of them are with the President and the Vice President. Visiting Gerald Ford in the Oval Office for a question-and-answer session last week were TIME'S Managing Editor...
...Ionesco notebook. Within a few days, the Wholesale Price Index drops a notch while consumer prices rise again. Unemployment hits a new high and the stock market rallies perversely. Assorted experts prescribe contradictory cures while Government officials shuffle a deck of options. How does a conscientious reporter or editor convey the meaning of it all? Not very well, in all too many cases...
That statement is rather typical of much Digest prose and opinion. However, if the prosperous magazine (circ. 18.8 million) wanted to convey its views on economics to its readers, why do it in ads paid for by very interested parties? Digest Managing Editor Edward T. Thompson sought to explain: "It is not reasonable to run an article on American business every month. We wouldn't run that many...
...Editor Friedrich and for all of us, the project offers an adventure in journalism. We hope that we can use the TIME format to convey not only the big news events but the flavor and quality of colonial life. Perhaps in discussing what we faced in 1776, we can also put the problems of our own time in better perspective...
...lawnmower in nondriving hours. These days many servants are grateful to have any job. A wealthy Los Angeles contractor leaves his Rolls in the garage and the chauffeur in the garden when he visits a potential customer; instead, he drives his wife's beat-up Volkswagen to convey an impression of cost-consciousness...