Word: coverer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week's cover stories on the joys and perils of childhood today are the children of Boston Correspondent Melissa Ludtke. A former kid herself (in Amherst, Mass., in the 1950s), she wondered what it was like to grow up in a world vastly different from the one she knew as a youngster. Ludtke located the five marvelous children whose lives form the centerpiece of the stories and spent a total of four months living with them. "My interest in children's issues began with a teenage-pregnancy story that I helped report in 1985," she relates. "The experience convinced...
...Bush to target California by choosing its Governor. Deukmejian publicly ruled himself out because his selection would hand the statehouse to the Dems, but Bush aides say Deukmejian would accept if asked. Weaknesses: he is dull as Death Valley, and he (like Dukakis) favored unpopular tax increases to cover his state's big deficit...
...COVER: What' s happening to America' s children...
...Cover: Photograph by Eddie Adams
...back of Biblical Scoreboard is an advertisement for Conservative Digest, boasting flattering cover articles on South African President P.W. Botha, America's ever-in-hot-water Attorney General Ed Meese, plus Rev. Pat Robertson and Rev. Jerry Falwell...