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Luce insisted that his ideas for stories and any copy he wrote be treated like those of any other editor. Once, when something he wrote turned out to be wrong because insufficiently rigorous checking seemed to have been applied to it, he announced at a staff luncheon: "I want to advise this college of cardinals that this particular pope is not under the illusion that he's infallible...
...Luce functioned editorially was by means of give-and-take with his top editors over the luncheon table. He loved dialectic exchange, and often shifted his own position in midsentence, to the consternation of novice listeners...
Except for the popular weekly staff luncheon, few of the Center's members have much contact with their colleagues from other disciplines. To Chester W. Hartman, assistant professor of City Planning, the main advantage in having half his salary paid by the Joint Center is that it reduces his obligation to the City Planning Department, which requires too much teaching to suit his tastes...
Bill Moyers, late of the White House, was installed last week as publisher of the prosperous Long Island daily, Newsday (circ. 413,000), and heir presumptive to the owner and editor-in-chief, Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, 76. As befits such an occasion, the Captain threw a luncheon for 900 in Garden City that was a must for every New York politician from Governor Rockefeller and Senators Javits and Kennedy down to 20 of Nassau and Suffolk counties' senators and assemblymen...
Friendly Welcome. Despite all this amiability, Kosygin went right on to say some unpleasant things about Britain's major allies. At the Guildhall luncheon, as Prime Minister Harold Wilson sat grim-lipped, Kosygin made a ritualistic attack on the U.S. as "the only cause of the war in Viet Nam." He discouraged U.S. hopes for an accord on halting the anti-missile missile race. He also launched a rude and ill-advised diatribe against the new Bonn government of Kurt Kiesinger, warning that Nazism and militarism were on the rise in West Germany. In 15 hours of private talks...