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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers of TIME'S Letters section (and, indeed, of the daily newspapers) well know, TIME has been hotly criticized in recent weeks for its coverage of unpleasant news in some countries friendly to the U.S., notably for stories of the economic crisis in Bolivia, the aftermath of revolution in Cuba, and government corruption in the Philippines. Replying to this criticism has given us the opportunity to restate some truths about TIME, and I thought you might like to see where we stand. The following is the text of one reply to a critic...
...press control is traditionally total, there is no perceptible struggle. But in freer countries there are subtler means of entrapment. There are the subsidized newspapers (and editors), the "guided" press, censorship, newsprint allocations, and more. All operate in the same direction-away from the people's right to know...
...TIME is to try to get at the facts and their meaning, to find out what's really going on-in the U.S. or in Bolivia, in art or in politics. As responsible journalists in a free society, we take our job with the utmost seriousness, and I know of no publication that devotes more effort to covering the news and, indeed, to the uncovering of it. Thus, we are likely to be singled out among journals and be ourselves the subject of comment. And often it will mean that as practitioners of responsible journalism we shall be dealing...
Mystery in the Den. In the years that followed, Lemnitzer settled purposefully into the orderly routine of the peacetime Army, started early his habit of retiring behind his "bear's den" door at night to read newspapers, magazines, technical journals ("I don't know," says wife Kay, "whether he goes in there to work, or read, or snooze"). He became the formidable but revered "Pop" to their two children: son William, now an Army captain and assistant professor of chemistry at West Point, and daughter Lois, wife of Artillery Lieut. Henry E. Simpson at Fort Sill, Okla...
Revolutionary War. Soldiers everywhere know that the Army that Lem Lemnitzer will take over has already plunged into a period of basic changes. "It's a damned revolution,'' said a head-shaking first sergeant on San Francisco's Angel Island. Samples of the revolution: MISSILES IN THE SUBURBS...