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...house in Japan, a lakeside resort in Scotland and several ski chalets in the German Alps. Hospital Corp. of America pays its employees to keep fit by giving them bonuses for every mile they jog and every lap they swim. Control Data, the computer manufacturer, and Reader's Digest have community gardens on company grounds where employees can grow their own vegetables. And, yes, there is a free lunch, at least for all workers at the Morgan Bank and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance...
...Walnut Creek, Calif, demonstrated a new computerized method for obtaining instant critical reviews of 4,000 products. Stewart Brand, publisher of the Whole Earth Catalogs, announced the first issue of the Whole Earth Software Review, a quarterly magazine that will pick and pan products. Another publisher, Software Digest, unveiled a $14.95 Ratings Book, which compares 30 word-processing programs written for the IBM Personal Computer. Says Spokesman Harold Poliskin: "We want to be the Consumer Reports of the software industry...
...audience gets no real sense of the man or the era. Nixon's confession is so warped and garbled that it is easier to dismiss his ideas than to digest them or speculate on their political or psychological significance. We can't even feel sorry for Nixon, because essentially, he is just a caricature...
...full-time occupation. Atwater, 55, joined TIME in 1950, served as a correspondent and writer, then went to the Saturday Evening Post in 1962. In 1969 he worked on drug-education programs for the U.S. Government, and later roved Europe as a writer for Reader's Digest. Rejoining TIME in 1973, he eventually edited the Nation, World and Education sections. Then last fall Atwater assumed a different kind of editorial post: dean of the University of Missouri's 75-year-old school of journalism, the oldest and one of the most prestigious of such institutions...
...Harper & Row and the Reader's Digest Association were set to publish A Time to Heal, an account by Gerald Ford of his life and presidency. Shortly before the book was due out, the Nation (circ. 48,000), a leftist weekly, summarized Ford's account of his pardon of Richard Nixon, using a stolen copy of the book without Ford's permission. A U.S. district court ruled that the Nation had taken the former President's work in violation of the federal copyright laws, and directed the magazine to pay the publishers damages...