Word: editor
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Autumn is a season of bonfires, pep rallies, red-dogs and touchdowns-as well as the time for presidential candidates to make their climactic quadrennial sprint toward Election Day. "Both football and press-the-flesh politics are peculiarly American institutions," says Associate Editor James Atwater, the writer of this week's cover story who has observed those peculiarities at close hand for three decades...
Some evangelicals are breaking with their tradition of not becoming involved in politics. Argues Harold Lindsell, editor of Christianity Today: "We are members of two kingdoms, God's and Caesar's, and we must participate in both." Evangelical periodicals are publishing articles on politics, and at least one has run a full-page ad paid for by a group called Evangelicals for Carter...
Died. Benjamin M. McKelway, 80, editor of the Washington Star (1946-63); of kidney failure; in Washington, D.C. A soft-spoken North Carolinian, McKelway joined the Star as a reporter in 1921. As its editor he was a champion of civil rights, including the right of District of Columbia residents to vote. In 1957 he became the first non-publisher to be elected president of the Associated Press...
Their final appeal denied by the California Supreme Court, four Fresno Bee newsmen last week became the largest group of U.S. journalists to be jailed for a single story. The Fresno four-Managing Editor George F. Gruner, former City Editor James H. Bort Jr., and Reporters William K. Patterson and Joe Rosato-will not be released until they tell how they obtained secret grand jury testimony quoted in a 1975 story about local corruption, or until a judge becomes convinced they cannot be forced to talk. Before the four entered a county prison farm at Caruthers late last week, they...
Today, U.S. chicken consumption is at an alltime high. But so is output: some 3.3 billion broilers, or 40 Ibs. per capita, will be produced this year. Prices are falling: last week, at a convocation of poultrymen in Springfield, Mass., William Haffert, editor of Broiler Industry and other trade journals, predicted "39? specials in the late fall." Many companies will probably lose money in the next six months...