Word: editoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, meanwhile, Associate Editor Charles Parmiter, with the aid of Researchers Mary Themo and Georgia Harbison and Reporter Jill Krementz, studied the assessments of the Guide that were cabled from European bureaus. Scott drew the assignment of touring with Fielding himself. At first, the travel expert was reluctant to waive his longstanding rule that no one is allowed to accompany him on his rounds. Finally, he agreed to let Scott watch him in action. "We toured hotels and restaurants in Madrid and London," says Scott, "and he quickly laid to rest any illusion that he coddles himself. He hoofs...
...chartered Boeing 737, and each day for a week they visited a different big-city black ghetto, from Cleveland to Watts. Organized by Whitney Young, executive director of the Urban League, the tour included Washington Post Editorial Writer Ben Gilbert, Columnists William F. Buckley Jr. and Joseph Kraft, Newsweek Editor Osborne Elliott, John Herbers of the New York Times, and TIME Washington Correspondent Jess Cook. Cook's report...
...reporters agreed that they had learned quite a lot. "I'm an editor," Michael Curtis reflected, "and my job is behind the desk. This brought me jowl to jowl with people and places I would otherwise have never seen. These people have decided to take charge of their own lives." Said John Herbers, a veteran civil rights reporter: "The situation changes so fast you have to keep going back. I was surprised at the extent of activity in these communities. Also surprising was the unity among them on what their purpose is, despite organizational fragmentation...
...gang all pitched in and worked harder than they ever had before. Even in bankruptcy they managed to publish three issues of the magazine, each one on time (unheard of for the gang!), each less irresponsible and hysterical than the last. "We're less campy," says Editor Bob Scheer, "and less smartass. There's more emphasis on research and getting the facts. We've increased our range-music, the arts, and so forth...
...next three years. The judge said, well, you guys seem to be doing pretty well as far as I'm concerned. So you're back on your own. As we leave the Ramparts Boys, we find them back in the clubhouse happily pecking at their typewriters. Editor Scheer exults: "We did the impossible." But tune in to our next exciting episode...