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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, who was accompanied by TIME'S Hong Kong bureau chief, Marsh Clark. The interview, initially scheduled for half an hour, stretched to 80 minutes in the Sinkiang Room of the Great Hall of the People on Peking's T'ien An Men Square...
...already on a par with the U.S. The Soviet military budget takes up around 20% of the gross national product.* What does one do with all these things? With no war going on, it has increased its standing army in three years from 3 million to 4 million men. What does one do that for? And as we have often noted, many people often overlook the continual development of the armed forces of the Soviet Union and its stockpiling of conventional weaponry, including ammunition, as well as the stockpiling of food grains. If one has so many things...
...weekly television guide, has had enough. "I thought your show was in very bad taste," she says. "I kept wondering, why is it necessary to spit on the windshield? Why so much tobacco juice? Why such high sexual content? The camera seemed to focus a lot on men's behinds...
Long a journalistic backwater populated by tired rewrite men, television criticism did not really become a respectable calling until the beginning of this decade, when newspapers belatedly began to see that they were giving pitifully short shrift to the country's most important cultural phenomenon. No-nonsense reporters and respected critics were assigned the beat, and sharp, analytical commentary soon came to the TV page. Critics like Tom Shales, 33, of the Washington Post, and Marvin Kitman, 49, of Newsday, are masters of the lampoon. The new breed can also level their targets with sheer ferocity. One recent example...
...discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. The company added a new dimension to its affirmative action program: Sears units were to hire one minority group member for every white hired until the payroll reflected the composition of the local area; women were to be hired for jobs that were traditionally men's, and vice versa. But in 1977, after an investigation, the EEOC decided that there was still "reasonable cause" to believe that the company was discriminating, and Sears and the commission have been wrangling ever since...