Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read your fine Essay, "Why Cars Must-and Can-Be Made Safer" [April 1] on the day we won Senate passage of a historic tire safety bill. I congratulate you for a thorough analysis of this emotion-filled issue without repeating the cliché that a safe car would look like a Sherman tank. There is an awakening interest in this issue in both houses of Congress. A number of us will continue fighting for safe cars; we appreciate your help...
...have read TIME'S Essay on the virtues of patience in America [March 25] with interest and concern. All too often is indecision, ignorance of a solution, or "letting the other guy do it" synonymous with patience. We have a plaque in the wardroom and on the bridge of U.S.S. Krishna with this inscription: "Impatience and sense of urgency tempered with realism can never lead to complacency." Impatience in today's world is a virtue, not a vice...
...Essay was conceived by Managing Editor Otto Fuerbringer as a means of probing and laying bare, relatively free of fast-breaking news, the big questions, the overriding issues of our times. Like any other TIME story, Essay is the product of many minds: editors, writers, researchers, correspondents-and the experts they interview. But it takes one man to pull everything together, and from the start that editor has been Henry Grunwald. Three senior editors, A. T. Baker, Champ Clark and Marshall Loeb (this week's author), have taken turns at writing Essays. Among the other writers...
...When Essay was launched a year ago, one of our colleagues on another magazine said, in some surprise: "You're not going to try to do that almost every week...
...safety, also a growing source of worry, will be examined in a future TIME Essay...