Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rupert Murdoch days, and once press secretary to former New York Mayor John Lindsay. Morgan had the good fortune to be a protege of Gardner Cowles during the last days of Look magazine, and maybe even more important, to marry Nelson Rockefeller's daughter. Morgan tried to buy The Nation last year, but that deal fell through, and so Politicks was born. It looks very promising...
Magid, whose firm is plunging into newspaper work after becoming the nation's leading television news doctor, is in many ways typical of the bunch. A one-time social psychologist at the University of Iowa, he borrowed $800 from his father and in 1957 launched a market research firm in Marion, a pleasant suburb of Cedar Rapids, where his wife was able to land a teaching job. After helping more than 100 TV stations to retool their newscasts, Magid and his staff of 117 have sold their services to nearly 40 newspapers in the past three years, including...
...have to pay money to consultants," says Charles Whipple, the Boston Globe's ombudsman. At worst, the use of consultants leads to an epidemic of fluff at the expense of hard news. Magid and Dallas' Belden Associates usually advise clients to squeeze some front-page nation al and international news into a box of summaries. After an audience study last year by Belden and some in-house soul searching, the Miami News began to boil much of its copy down to short, brisk stories that could be read more easily by television viewers. Since then, News circulation...
...notes Forbath, the Congo has settled into something resembling stability. A confederation of tribes has been loosely tied into the nation of Zaire. The country, Forbath writes, is becoming un recognizable. "The tribal villages are also by and large gone . . . displaced by dreary modern mining towns" where tribes men wear plastic hard hats and carry lunch buckets, and "fires can be seen burning everywhere, burning through the grass, blackening the earth, destroying the land." But the river remains unchanged...
Harvard finished first in five of the 18 events during six hours of racing, and Gregory E. Stone III '75 took two of those wins in the double sculls and the elite singles events. Stone, ranked as the number two oarsman in the nation, narrowly beat out his longtime rival, first ranked James Dietz, a member of the New York Athletic Club, in both events...