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Incensed by a Reader's Digest article suggesting that Senator Edward Kennedy had lied about Chappaquiddick, a volunteer worker in his presidential campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. Identifying herself as "a concerned citizen," Larryann C. Willis of Vale, Ore., accused the magazine of making corporate campaign contributions in violation of federal election laws...
...commission found "reason to believe" that the Digest had violated election law by sending out videotapes to promote its February 1980 story. Many journalists and First Amendment scholars were alarmed by the FEC move, seeing it as an ominous Government encroachment on press freedom...
Conservative Digest (circ. 85,000). Published by Richard Viguerie, the New Right's master fund raiser, this monthly calls itself "the magazine for the new majority" and talks tough about "neutralizing liberals" and putting prayer back in politics...
...persona and also avoid another parody-the straw-filled scarecrow wild man the Carter people created. Reporting gave the voters a plausible portrait of a 9-to-5 executive, only passably informed, given to exaggerated remarks but cautious in action, who wants complicated problems reduced to Reader's Digest brevity, then decides about them without heartburn...
...astonishing thing about Russian art of this period is its sustained inventiveness. Artists who based their work on the available prewar styles of avant-garde art - mainly Fauvism, cubism and futurism -were able to digest and develop them with tremendous speed and urgency, leaping beyond their prototypes like pole vaulters. To see this at work, one need only look at the development of Vladimir Tallin's sculpture after his first contact with Picasso's tin cubist Guitar, 1912, in Paris, or at the conviction with which Kasimir Malevich moved from cubism to a purely abstract painting...