Word: digester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fernwood Flasher. That night Mary snuggles up to Tom, who is in bed loading a pistol he has bought to protect his family from the mass murderer. She nibbles his ear. Barks Tom: "Cut it out." Mary replies, "It's been five weeks." The Reader's Digest has counseled her to assert herself, but Tom has different advice: "Act like a woman." "You mean do nothing?" asks Mary. "That's right," says...
...have to rise again to cover editorial costs and other overhead expenses. Newsweek would perhaps have to make a similar leap, as would such other weeklies as Saturday Review, The New Yorker, New York magazine and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Even monthlies, such as Harper's and Reader's Digest, would have to hit their subscribers with drastic price increases. Religious, labor and farm publications would also be severely hurt...
...drop, Postal Service revenues would fall, and the entire system would be in a deeper hole than it is now with its $800 million annual deficit. The individual first-class user might save a few dollars a year. But, claims Coleman Hoyt, distribution manager of the Reader's Digest, the saving would be cancelled by increases for other classes of mail used by the same person. "In the long run," says Hoyt, "the people pay for everything...
Biggest Threat. The first meeting failed to name a campaign director. Laird was everybody's first choice, but he declined, preferring to stay on as a troubleshooter for The Reader's Digest Association Inc. Another possibility is Donald Rumsfeld, White House chief of staff. Rumsfeld might be reluctant to give up his powerful post for the rigors of managing a tough campaign, but if he thought the President was in serious danger of losing, he would probably make the plunge. George Bush, chief of the U.S. liaison office hi Peking, has also been mentioned. An adroit U.S. Ambassador...
BREACH OF FAITH by THEODORE H. WHITE 356 pages. Atheneum-Reader's Digest Press...