Word: demott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Energy section we describe the planned journey south of the first oil to flow through the Alaskan pipeline, which will go into service this week after the spending of $9 billion and more than three years of construction. The story was written by John S. DeMott, with the help of Reporter-Researcher Gail Perlick. No one knows exactly when the pioneer ribbon of oil will reach the end of its nearly 800-mile trip or, strangely enough, where all of it will go after it gets there. The economic and political implications of the various plans being made to refine...
...have desacralized marriage," according to Robert Weiss, chairman of the sociology department at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and author of Marital Separation. It is no longer seen as a "calling" or a "social responsibility" but merely as an adjunct to the good life. This change, which Benjamin DeMott sums up as scrapping " 'in sickness and in health' in favor of 'I do my thing and you do your thing,' " is not so much the result of sexual permissiveness and easier divorce laws as, like them, an offshoot of what Weiss describes as the "intensity...
Designing and printing Christmas cards is a mass-production industry, but choosing which one to send to whom is an intensely personal decision that reflects kaleidoscopically changing lifestyles. TIME Staff Writer John S. DeMott's report on the industry, his minor role in it, and the changes that are occurring in cards...
...Reporter-Researcher Sue Raffety is also an incorrigible last-minute shopper, but her colleague Sarah Button, another member of our cover reporting team, shops for Christmas all year long and never gets caught short at the last minute. Then there is Staff Writer John S. DeMott: he not only turned his cover story in more or less on time but also claims that he always has his Christmas gifts bought, wrapped and spread out under the tree "by mid-December." A likely story, for a writer...