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Business coverage in most dailies chronically lacks space and manpower. On business developments of major national significance, such as a raise in interest rates or a steel price boost, business editors seldom interpret or supplement a Page One wire story by interviewing the bankers, economists, labor leaders who can give remote decisions local dollars-and-cents impact. One reason is that business news is frequently entrusted to a shaky old hand or an untested new one. "Being assigned to business," sniffs a Phoenix reporter, "is like being made dog editor." City editors too often agree. Thus, on a big local...
Much of the behavior that they term seductive is not consciously so intended, conceded Psychiatrists Johnson and Robinson, and may actually seem remote from it. An outstanding example, as they interpret it, is the frankness of modern parents in discussing sex or appearing naked before their children. More obviously unhealthy is the continuance, far beyond infancy, of practices appropriate only for infants: "Under the guise of 'motherly' or 'fatherly' affection, boys and girls may be bathed by parents, often of the opposite sex, until adolescence. Children sense at bathing whether a mother's close inspection...
...Churches of Christ are the result of a split from the Disciples of Christ in 1906 over questions of how literally the New Testament picture of the church should be followed. Says Young: "Each generation must interpret the Bible for itself. We believe that in this way each generation can remain nearer pure Christianity. If our generation were to write down its interpretation of the Bible, in another 100 years we would be just another denomination." Young's flock calls him Brother rather than the "Doctor" to which he is entitled (he has an M.A. from Vanderbilt University...
...Appliance sales, down sharply so far in 1957, are climbing out of the slump. Said Whirlpool-Seeger Corp.'s president, Elisha Gray II: "We interpret the general indices as showing much improvement for the last half of the year...
...celluloid epic patterns set by D. W. Griffith in 1915 have changed very little: you just take some romantic, legendary, historical period like Reconstruction in the South, add a zesty love affair or three between ideal "period" characters to raise the story above documentary level, and interpret history in some engrossing way. Nowadays you also spend five million dollars or so and tell people movies are better than ever, in hope that you will make back the five million...