Word: ince
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Died. John F. Dowd, 60, who served as Time Inc.'s chief editorial counsel for 28 years; of heart disease; in Boston. The son of a New York City policeman, Dowd was graduated from St. John's University and Harvard Law School, and worked briefly for a Wall Street firm before coming to TIME as its first in-house counsel. To protect the magazine from lawsuits charging libel or invasion of privacy, Dowd read nearly every word slated for publication, and he was welcomed by the editors as a resourceful partner in this effort. "Any lawyer...
Worship Cupid, but Don't Be Stupid! advises a press release put out by Zero Population Growth, Inc. A Valentine received by some Americans last week, inscribed Love ... Carefully, was equipped with a red condom. But few young couples in the U.S. today need antinatalist exhortations or equipment. Since 1957 the fertility rate has dropped from a peak of 3.76 children per woman to a record low of 1.75 last year. Though it may rise in the next 30 years, it is highly improbable that Americans in the foreseeable future will again engage in the great procreational spree...
...courting was, as befits the object, seemly and stately, and last week the biggest publishing rush in memory came to an end. Henry Kissinger signed an agreement giving Boston's Little, Brown, a subsidiary of Time Inc., rights to publish his account of his eight years as an architect of U.S. foreign policy. The scene stealer at the signing was Tyler, Kissinger's yellow Labrador, who chomped on the champagne cork that Arthur H. Thornhill Jr., chairman of Little, Brown, helped pop to celebrate his company's coup. Afterward, an ebullient Henry and Wife Nancy flew...
This week, however, the last of the Star Co.'s lunch-pail capitalists will sell out to Capital Cities Communications Inc., the Manhattan-based owner of four small newspapers, 13 broadcast stations and Women's Wear Daily. Employees of the Kansas City company, which publishes the evening Star and the morning Times, gave up their stake so willingly because the papers will soon require very expensive modernization -and because the price was right: $125 million, twice the book value of the firm and probably the highest price ever paid for a one-city newspaper company...
...Shapiro's co-partners in Ovu-Time, Inc., are Dr. Harold Kosasky, a clinical instructor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Med School; Dr. Samuel R. Schuster, assistant clinical professor of Surgery at the Med School; and Louis F. Kopito, who is a researcher...