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...marrying his beloved wife Margaret, Edinburgh in the shadow of his father and the law was never a pleasant home for him. "Only in London were his talents and personality appreciated at their full value. Only in London did mere existence blossom into life." In London was Johnson, Burke, Goldsmith along with the usual "whirlwind of executions, dinner and girls," Boswell's appetite for adventure stagnated in Edinburgh as he yearned for the big city...

Author: By Nicholas T. Dawidoff, | Title: Biographer Biographied | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...being compensated in the free market,"rather than legislation, Government commissions or political movements" The report also argues that one reason average women's wages have not risen more sharply is that a greater number of women are entering the job market in entry-level positions. Judy Goldsmith, president of the National Organization for Women, responds, "It is ridiculous to suggest that there is no connection between wage gains and antidiscrimination legislation." She adds: "The ultimate bottom line of the report-that we should be immensely gratified that women will be making 74? to a man's dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women: Narrowing the Wage Gap | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...West German newsweekly Der Spiegel. The publication withdrew, for a no-cash settlement, a libel suit that it had brought in Britain against the defunct newsweekly Now. The London-based magazine had reprinted in 1981, a few months before it folded, a speech by its owner, Sir James Goldsmith, in which he accused the left-leaning Spiegel of having been manipulated by the KGB while researching a series of 1962 articles that challenged the integrity of Franz Josef Strauss, then West Germany's Defense Minister. In last week's exchange of statements in court, reprinted in full-page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Manipulation | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...Goldsmith, who owns the French weekly L 'Express and an American supermarket empire, has crusaded for years urging Western journalists to study disinformation techniques. To prepare a defense for the Spiegel trial, he solicited testimony from students of Soviet actions in West Germany, Britain and the U.S., including a Czech defector, General Jan Sejna, whose public remarks were the basis for the assertions about Strauss and Spiegel. Among other potential witnesses: a Soviet bloc defector who was involved in efforts to defame Strauss, and George town University Professor Roy Godson, author of a recent book on Soviet disinformation. Goldsmith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Manipulation | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...Goldsmith, a failed aspirant to Parliament, is written off by some intelligence experts as a Conservative ideologue. Yet Western reporters have repeatedly experienced disinformation from the Soviet bloc, from attempts to discredit Polish Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa to contentions that the Korean Air Lines jet shot down by the Soviets was on a CIA mission. The issues in the Spiegel case probably are, as its editors said last week, beyond conventional proof. But the broader problem Goldsmith raised is one that knowing journalists cannot easily dismiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Manipulation | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

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