Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this week's cover story on the California tax revolt and its national repercussions, TIME'S correspondents and editors had to deal with a maze of figures about property taxes, assessments and the often stunning jump in real estate prices. For some correspondents, the statistics were academic and provoked only a mild incredulity. But for Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers and Correspondent Joe Kane, the figures were a grim reality: as recent initiates to the California housing scene, they shared the experience and understood the bristling anger of many of the residents they interviewed...
...Paris; this week an expanded group of Western delegates-as well as some from Japan, Saudi Arabia and Iran -will move on to Brussels. The purpose of both meetings: to devise an economic rescue plan for Zaïre. For a start, the group will raise $100 million to cover the next three months, with $40 million of this amount contributed by the U.S. That may be just the beginning. Bankrupt Zaïre's debts already approach $3 billion, and its chief sources of foreign revenue, the copper and cobalt mines of Shaba, may be shut...
...inordinate number of claims, actuaries figure that if a client makes a claim, the statistical chances rise that he will make another, and so his premiums rise to reflect that risk. Consequently, many agents echo the advice of fellow Broker George Peters in Newton, Mass.: "Buy insurance to cover you for that one catastrophe. Don't put in for small claims. It's the frequency that hurts...
Director Peter Hyams' script does its best to exploit the latest fashions in paranoia. There are interwoven conspiracies and cover-ups; every U.S. Government official on view is a venal scoundrel. Hyams' cynical fantasies about the space program are an especially amusing treat. He suggests, with malicious wit, that NASA'S space walks could actually have taken place on Earth: indeed, he demonstrates that for the price of a video camera and a few buckets of sand, any American can take a giant step for mankind in the privacy of his own home...
...Maybe you can excuse the Washington columnist or the fellow on the beat for tired coinages like that, but you shouldn't excuse the editor who prints them. An editor is always free to change a subject rather than try to inflate it. With Washington less exciting, the cover stories in the newsweeklies again range more widely, to science, medicine, entertainment and sports. Too many magazines and newspapers have also turned-to the displeasure of those who think life is real and news is earnest-to boutique journalism, to trendy preoccupation with you: your health, your dinners, your frustrations...