Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upcoming feature on the children of U.S. Presidents, editors at the Ladies' Home Journal hired a couple of experts on the subject: Susan Ford, 18, and Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, 32. Last week the pair visited another First Family offspring, Helen Taft Manning, 84, daughter of Republican President William Howard Taft. "Mrs. Robb and I gossiped about people at the White House. I have always admired the Johnsons," said Mrs. Manning. As for Susan, "She was the least bothersome photographer I have ever had, very professional and businesslike." Did the bipartisan progeny engage in any political shoptalk? Answered Manning...
Solzhenitsyn's doom-struck message created a stir. The Christian Science Monitor called the program a "time bomb" while the Wall Street Journal rated it "one of the most important pieces of TV journalism ever, and spellbinding besides." Still, most sober observers of world affairs are not likely to fall under his spell. Example: Sovietologist Richard Lowenthal has sorrowfully expressed his amazement at Solzhenitsyn's "utter disaccord with the facts of recent international history." Lowenthal points out that not all defeats for the West, as for instance in Indochina, are caused by surrender to the Soviet Union...
After he graduated, Stark wrote news, poetry and fiction for several magazines, was national correspondent in Cleveland for the Wall Street Journal and New England correspondent for The Boston Globe. A former resident of Montgomery, Ala.. he was familiar with the then-governor of Georgia and knew some members of Carter's staff. He covered Carter for a week for the Globe early in 1975, and soon joined his campaign full time...
...turned unrecognized into the room of the Presidents' wives and dresses. From behind a dummy of Martha Washington, Lindbergh peered into the adjoining hall where the world's most celebrated aircraft hung like a child's model from the ceiling. That evening he wrote in his journal: "I felt I could take it down from its cables, carry it to some flying field, and feel perfectly at home in that cockpit again...
...American province of Qatab, where the CIA keeps an eye on him and he, in turn, ventures out among the untamed Xixi people to keep an eye on them for the CIA and make sure no one tampers with their uranium deposits. His story--told through entries in his journal, letters to and from his girlfriend at Harvard Summer School, and the government's spying reports on him--takes on endless complications as he gets deeper and deeper into Xixi culture and trouble...