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...Jimmy. "Frank," he intoned one morning at a senior staff meeting, "did you see the article on black holes? What do you think?" Science Adviser Frank Press, a brilliant geophysicist from M.I.T., confessed he could not fully digest the New York Times that early. The article had reported about new data gathered by one of our space probes. Well, said Carter, be sure and let him know. He was fascinated by the discussion of black holes and the speculation that they might provide answers to what holds the universe together...
...five bulging mailbags arrive on the 23rd floor of the Time-Life Building in Rockefeller Center. The letters are immediately pored over by Letters Chief Maria Luisa Cisneros and her staff. The most newsworthy are sent to Reporter-Researcher Nancy Chase, who picks those that will be published. A digest of the week's letters is also distributed to TIME'S editors and news bureaus. All letters are acknowledged, and those that question the tone, emphasis or factual content of a story are answered by Cisneros, her deputy, Isabel Kouri, or one of six letters correspondents. More...
...Senate before taking effect. But fears persist on Capitol Hill that the Soviets have underhandedly violated the old SALT agreement and cannot be trusted to keep a new one. Indeed, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird accused Moscow of exactly that in a recent article in the Reader's Digest titled, Arms Control: The Russians Are Cheating...
...Health Letter shows the individual the sort of things he should be thinking about his health that he can't get out of Reader's Digest and similar publications," Hutchinson said...
...book, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, is the result of 2½ years of work by Reader's Digest editors and researchers, who acquired many FBI and CIA documents under the Freedom of Information Act and, in addition, covered some 150,000 miles in 26 states and nine nations to interview Oswald's former associates. It was written by Edward Jay Epstein, a careful academic researcher whose 1966 book, Inquest, first revealed the flaws in the Warren Commission's investigation but did not conjure up any wild conspiracy theories...