Word: digester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China, containing some highly personal assessments of Chairman Mao and Chou Enlai. Nixon, claims Editor Markell, who visited San Clemente half a dozen times to work with the author, "has a sharp talent for being able to recall the sense of a person." Walter Hunt, a Reader's Digest editor who has read the manuscript, agrees that Nixon brings foreign leaders "alive in a different way than others...
...getting face lifts. Business is good for them now that network advertising costs so much, is seen amidst a clutter of other ads, and intersperses so much junk viewing. This doesn't mean that print is always loftier-one of the new publishing successes is Soap Opera Digest...
...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...
...rely on them than to maintain stables of salaried staff writers. But the number of contributors is outstripping the growth-and quality-of the market. Everybody seems to be freelancing: housewives, public relations men, professors, reporters, the growing army of jobless journalism graduates. Circulation of Writer's Digest, a how-to monthly for such dining-table dilettantes, has leaped by 17% in the past year and a half...
...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...