Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School of Journalism, he joined the New York Herald Tribune in 1957. Soon he became the Tribune's city hall bureau chief, with a regular column, "City Hall Beat," and wrote The Mayor of New York, a then futuristic political novel about urban pathology. After helping to cover the White House for the Tribune during the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies, Barrett in 1965 joined TIME, where he worked in the Nation section and wrote 24 cover stories. Eventually, he served as a senior editor, then became chief of the magazine's New York bureau...
...Your cover on lobbying [Aug. 7] could very well be classified as a minicourse on who runs the country and how legislation is manipulated by special-interest groups. It is an excellent exposé of how the people's elected representatives in Washington are influenced...
...Ford Model Agency. She began going around with a celebrated race-track figure named Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson. He set her up as the head of her own modeling agency, named My Fair Lady. Her picture began appearing in the pages of Vogue and McCall's, even on the cover of Redbook, and soon she was earning more than $100,000 a year. "She was nice, considering the money she made, never stuck up," recalls one of the models who worked...
...upper and middle classes. What happened to the boys when they left home is a more complicated subject, because the schools to which they were exiled at around age eight have a history dating back some 14 centuries. That is a daunting span for any single book to cover, but the author attacks it with zest...
Every Lampoon fan has his own favorite outrageous moment. One occurred in January 1973, when the magazine's cover photo of a puppy with a gun to its head was accompanied by the headline, IF YOU DON'T BUY THIS MAGAZINE, WE'LL KILL THIS DOG. Off-Broadway audiences recall The National Lampoon Show of 1975, in which Gilda Radner playing Patty Hearst machine-gunned Steven Weed. Lampoon writers routinely savage Kennedys, Nixons, Third World peasants and American capitalists. No one, alive or dead, is sacred. The Lampoon's last issue included a fictional letter...