Word: magnusons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...temperatures dropped to zero around the Time-Life Building, they endured delays of up to five hours in reaching work, were forced to seek out virtually unattainable hotel rooms and suffered all the icy vicissitudes common last week to so many of their fellow Americans. Cover Writer Ed Magnuson, who performed his duties in the comfortable 70° temperature of his 25th-floor office overlooking a frigid Manhattan, had no difficulty even in those circumstances in conjuring up the vivid sensations of his Minnesota boyhood, when winter temperatures could dip as low as -40° and cross-country skiing...
...result of human error, and there is real reason for concern over the uneven experience and training of tanker captains and crews (see box). What to do? The usual complaint is that worldwide shipping is so diffuse that effective regulation is impossible. As Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson put it last week: "I don't see how you can have control when you have American-owned ships insured by the British, run by the Greeks, with Italian officers and a Chinese crew...
...Then, John, you shouldn't write that report. That's not very smart." Recalls Dean, in two incriminating sentences: "She was right, but her innocence annoyed me. She seemed so far removed from all the shadings of lies that make up political life. " Ed Magnuson...
...TIME, Magnuson soon plunged into the cauldron of the revolutionary '60s and as Education writer (1964-68) turned out our cover stories on the early, boiling days of student radicalism. With the Nation staff ever since, Magnuson wrote most of our Watergate accounts, including 20 cover stories, from March 26,1973 to Nixon's resignation...
...Says Magnuson, now deep into his fourth presidential race: "It's eerie how the faces reappear. I met Fritz Mondale when I was a cub at the Tribune, and he was managing the losing campaign of a guy running for mayor of Minneapolis. Shows you how far a man can go in politics." Shows you how far you can go in journalism...