Word: editor
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Storer also offers a weak argument to the effect that McCarthyism was the reason for Velikovsky's rough reception. However, the straightforward and courteous manner displayed by the book's publisher and editor in their correspondence with him indicate that for whatever reason Velikovsky is getting better treated today. Ironically Velikovsky released this collection of letters to his followers because he felt they showed a continuation of his mistreatment...
Anticipating that any major news developments in the Middle East would revolve around the leaders of Egypt and Israel, TIME Picture Editor John Durniak last July commissioned Photographer David Hume Kennerly to shoot a portfolio of pictures of both President Anwar Sadat and Premier Menachem Begin. Durniak's prescience paid off. Our cover story this week on the Egyptian President and his mission to Jerusalem is enhanced by four pages of Kennerly's intimate color photographs of Sadat and his Israeli host...
...there are others: James Fallows, 28, was the editor of the Washington Monthly at $20,000 before he was appointed Carter's top speechwriter; the latest raise put his gross up to $45,000. Says one former Carter staffer: "That is quite a salary to pay a speechwriter for a President who throws away prepared texts and ad-libs." Among Rosalynn Carter's aides, Social Secretary Gretchen Poston, 44, and Personal Assistant Madeline MacBean, 40, each earn $42,800-a bit plush for such fringe jobs...
...themselves lucky if they can cover their production costs. But one eastern Montana farmer, Gene Voss, did better-if on a small scale. With his winter wheat selling for less than $2 per bu. and costing $3.50 per bu. to produce, Voss proposed a barter deal to William Roesgen, editor of the Billings Gazette. "I believe wheat should be $6 per bu.," wrote Voss. "I would gladly bring you 9¼ bu. for one of your subscriptions...
...editorial point of the stunt riled Montana State University Economics Professor Maurice Taylor, who does not think farmers are in such bad shape. He sarcastically offered to trade one of his lectures for a subscription to the Gazette. The editor, perhaps proving that he knows how to separate the wheat from the chaff, turned down the professor...