Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With but five weeks to go until the election, newspapers last week were treating the campaign coolly. On one day, for instance, the top story in both the Los Angeles Times and the Cleveland Press was a Northern California timber fire, while the Baltimore Sun, Milwaukee Journal and the Washington Post gave prominence to an averted national rail strike. The New York Daily News, fascinated by the nonpolitical conduct of its audience, made its Page One headline: HOLD PARENTS IN TEEN DRINKING. And with the issues generally being blurred, there was also less punditing and interpretive reporting...
Arguments in favor of increased reliance on the profit motive appear regularly in the party theoretical journal, Novo Vreme, and although the economy is still predominantly controlled by central authorities, a pilot experiment in decentralization proved outstandingly successful last year. The Liliana Dimitrova textile plant in Sofia was permitted to work out its own production plan, obtain its own materials and dispose of its own goods with a minimum of higher direction. Not only did the plant exceed its planned requirements, but by the year's end it had enough of a profit margin to permit a 10% wage...
...Yale Law Journal, Dr. Lawrence S. Kubie, former president of the American Psychosomatic Society, criticizes present methods of determining custody and visitation rights as often being imperfect and inflexible-representing "a compromise between the demands and feelings of contending parents." There is, he says, a lack of "machinery first for discovering and then for serving the changing needs of the child . . . There may be times when a child needs the constant attention and affection of his mother, others when his father's masculine image is of primary importance." But although courts can and do change custody provisions, which...
...aware that his suggestion of custody by private committee appears to raise a legal question: If widely adopted, might it tend to usurp court prerogatives in custody matters? The answer, he feels, is probably no. And in a student note appended to Kubie's article, the Yale Journal agrees. It points out that courts, as the ultimate arbiters of family disputes, would always have the right to review committee decisions at the request of either parent. Moreover, suggests the note, overworked courts might be helping themselves by heeding the consensus of such private councils in difficult custody disputes...
What effect such impetuous and enthusiastic side picking may have on the election was a question for which at least one newspaper had a ready answer. "For many years," said the Wall Street Journal, "it has been our practice not to announce our support for any candidate in the quadrennial presidential campaigns. We don't propose this year either to tell our readers whom to vote for. One reason is that we suspect it would be futile. We even have a sneaking suspicion that most American voters are unmoved by the traditional endorsements offered by newspaper editors, labor leaders...