Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth waiting for, New York Times TV Critic Jack Gould admires Cronkite's "uncanny ability to fight fatigue." As a critic in the Providence Journal put it: "Viewers rarely recall or relish a Cronkite statement. They believe it instead...
...Caltech Graduate Student Thomas McCord was searching for other answers when he made his unexpected discovery. Curious about the odd behavior of the planet Neptune's two moons, Triton and Nereid, he set out to make a mathematical analysis of their unusual orbits. Last week in the Astronomical Journal, he reported that his two-year, computer-aided investigation had not only accounted for the current state of the Neptunian satellites but had also given him a startling glimpse into the future: Triton, largest of the two moons, is doomed to smash into Neptune in a cataclysmic collision...
...Real Rewards. The youngster from Glasgow, Ky., who dropped out of Princeton in his freshman year for lack of funds broke into journalism in 1907 as a cub reporter for the Louisville Herald. He covered his first beat on horseback, became a Washington correspondent for the Louisville Times just three years later. In 1915 he was home again in Louisville as editorial director of both the Times and its sister paper, the Courier-Journal...
Nation's Business, the publication of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, pays no taxes and gets the jump on Business Week and FORTUNE, which do. The tax-exempt Journal of the American Medical Association, which rang up a record $10.5 million in advertising revenue last year, drains pharmaceutical advertising from tax-paying Medical Economics and Medical World News; by running ads for such products as soft drinks, margarine and soap, it also competes with general-circulation magazines. Thanks in large part to its tax-exempt status, the National Geographic is able to offer lower advertising rates than its competitors...
...these machines are relatively useless," complains Dr. John Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital. "And they are pushing up costs astronomically, because people are beginning to feel they have to step into a machine to get the best treatment." Taking the opposite view, Robert Allen, editor of the Journal of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, argues that "doctors simply don't understand the new machinery. Often they feel threatened. A machine between them and their patients tends to make them lose confidence in themselves...