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WASHINGTON--Most of the faces will be same, but the Senate convening next year will be feistier and more likely to challenge President Reagan on both economic and defense issues...
...chief rival is Harper's (circ. 301,000). Since 1952 the two publications have sold advertising jointly, an arrangement made possible by their similar circulation and demographics. Editorially the two monthlies go their separate ways. Harper's, founded seven years before the Atlantic, is usually feistier. Harper's tone is set by the crotchety essays of Editor Lewis H. Lapham, 45, who slays the fashions of the moment with 18th century prose. Circulation is down 68,000 since 1970, however, and Harper's owner for the past 15 years, John Cowles Jr. of the Minneapolis Star...
...York City and right-to-work laws, which is not. Cockburn's penchant for hyperbole is particularly regrettable since his more general case, that Carter is slick and exhibits rightist tendencies, is a convincing one. The real hatchet job, though, appeared in Harper's last week. One of the feistier dirtdaubers in Atlanta, Steven Brill, weighed in with a piece, "Jimmy Carter's Pathetic Lies," that produced the biggest stir in the campaign to date. Carter Press Secretary Jody Powell issued a full-blown rebuttal (Globe, Feb. 6) that, while leaving certain allegations of Carter's duplicity unresolved, left little...
Secret Plan. Lately, some Portuguese journalists have grown even feistier. Jorno Novo, a Socialist daily founded just after nationalization by a former advertising man, earlier this month ran an exposé of what it called a secret government plan to impose censorship and fines of up to $20,000 for sins like "neglect of duty to sensitize the population to the great national tasks." Social Communications Minister Jorge Correia Jesuino, a Gonçalves intimate, refused to discuss the scheme, but even government-controlled papers hastily denounced it. Since then, an anti-Communist slate has easily won control...