Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unravel that alphabet soup, Author-Physician Michael Crichton (The Great Train Robbery, The Andromeda Strain) recently looked over some back issues of the New England Journal of Medicine. Crichton, who wrote novels even during his days at Harvard Medical School (class of 1969), was appalled by what he read. The style, he reported in the Journal, was "as dense, impressive and forbidding as possible." Examples...
...traditional, tough-talking managing editor. I don't go around banging shoes on desks or yelling at reporters across the city desk." So says Carol Sutton, 42, the first woman ever named to the top editorial job on a big American daily. Colleagues at the Louisville Courier-Journal consider Sutton's coolheaded style one of her greatest assets. And, says Columnist Billy Reed, "she handles copy better and has more imaginative story ideas than any other editor I've worked under here...
After graduating from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1955, Sutton became a secretary at the Courier-Journal. Within a year, she won promotion to city-desk reporting and in 1963, by now a wife and mother, was made editor of the women's section. She turned its coverage from society-page sycophancy to provocative feature writing and investigative reporting. One Thanksgiving Day, for instance, she defied her readers' expectations by presenting to them the first installment of a series on "Hunger in Kentucky...
...year's effort on the part of Congress, but it pleased almost nobody. Liberals conceded that while it will avert a sudden sharp rise in heating-oil and gasoline prices, it also virtually guarantees that Americans will go on using energy profligately. As for conservatives, the Wall Street Journal summed up their feelings by branding the bill a "monument to the Orwellian leviathan"; nearly every section "involves an infringement of individual rights or property rights." The controversial bill is politically palatable, but it will leave the nation far from the goal of energy self-sufficiency. Major provisions...
...operatives in an anti-CIA article published November 25. The article included even home addresses and telephone numbers. Welch, it said, "lives at No. 5 Queen Frederica in Psychico. The reader can telephone him for his comments on these accusations at 671-2055." The Athens News, an anti-American journal, may have indirectly got its lead about Welch from Counterspy, the quarterly newsletter of a Washington-based outfit called the Fifth Estate, whose purpose is to expose covert American intelligence activities. Among the leading members of this organization is former CIA Agent Philip Agee, author of Inside the Company...