Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firsthand observer of five presidencies and a TIME correspondent since 1966, Angelo has done a major share of the reporting for TIME'S past four Gerald Ford cover stories. Well-versed in the family hazards of high office, she notes that the demands in a political marriage are increasing all the time. "But none of the stresses are new ones; it's just that the disappearance of the stereotype of the politician's wife makes her problems easier to examine today...
...some European nations but at that time still rare in Sweden. He also made changes at Volvo's big assembly plant near Göteborg, automating the heaviest jobs and establishing an internal placement agency to help people find more satisfying assignments. American workers will soon get a firsthand look at Gyllenhammar's style. Volvo has broken ground for a new assembly plant in Chesapeake, Va., the first automobile factory established in the U.S. by a foreign company since World War II. It is expected to begin production in late...
Shopping in the Harvard Square area and taking occasional trips to the Central Square Cinema can be a student's only contact with Cambridge. But for those who are interested, its form of government permits an outsider (and you will always be an outsider) to observe firsthand the complexities of conflict politics...
...weapon of revenge-a Western-style revolver-is provided by the grateful realtor whose development Bronson saved. A pressing, almost daily need to use it is supplied by British Director Winner and West Coast Writer Mayes, who offer a vision of New York City existence based less on firsthand experience than on old Johnny Carson-Dick Cavett monologues about getting home from the studio. Everywhere Bronson turns in a trash-and graffiti-glutted environment, he sees an old man mugged, a car being burglarized-and his gun is quick. Pretty soon he is stalking the gloomiest streets, the dimmest parks...
Active-Negative. Psychiatrists are outraged by such remote-control analysis. Protests Harvard's Dr. Robert Coles: "This is the most blatant kind of psychiatric reductionism. It's hard enough to interpret a person's motives or reasons even firsthand." Dr. Jacob Swartz of Boston, spokesman for the American Psychoanalytic Association, says: "To form a valid opinion, one should see the patient...