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...tour represented companies that employ more than 1½ million people and had 1974 sales of nearly $100 billion. TIME'S contingent included Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell, Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, President James R. Shepley and myself. Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and World Section Senior Editor John Elson represented TIME'S editorial staff, along with Gart and incoming Deputy Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan...
...York, Associate Editor William Smith received some 150 pages of reports and wrote the story assisted by Reporter-Researchers Sara Collins Medina and Susan Reed, who specialize in the Middle East area. For John Elson, senior editor of the World section, it was his third Middle East cover story in five weeks...
...governments, toppling or threatening world leaders with astonishing regularity. The resignation of West Germany's Willy Brandt and the downfall of Canada's Trudeau government signaled a new high mark on the political Richter scale. This has been a remarkable period for World Senior Editor John T. Elson, whose job offers a rare overview of the international scene. Presiding over a staff of 14 writers and reporter-researchers, Elson is also in daily contact with TIME'S 21 bureaus outside the U.S. He requests and monitors dispatches from abroad, determines each week's assignments and edits...
...Elson, a sometime dance critic and longtime oenophile, began at TIME as a summer-vacation copy boy while an undergraduate at Notre Dame. He went on to get an M.A. in English from Columbia, and after a stint in Japan with the Air Force joined our Detroit bureau in 1957. He later transferred to New York, where he wrote and edited Religion as well as other sections, and he moved to World three years ago. "What's going on now is as challenging and complex a variety of situations as I've had to deal with...
...movie set. Astaroth explains that comets disrupt the "psychomagnet-ic equilibrium" of the planetary system. He adds: "Human beings will be drawn to commit acts of violence-not only singly but collectively." In McFarland, Wis., the self-proclaimed head of the Church of the Odd Infinitum, Edward Ben Elson, is selling tickets at $10 each for his intergalactic spaceship ("No warranties expressed or implied"). He says it will take off Dec. 24 before the comet's gases can ignite the earth's oil supply and bring death to most of mankind. UFO Cataloguer and Astronomer J. Allen Hynek...