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...early decades, TIME was staffed by poets or, at any rate, by writers who cared more about words than about news. Today we still venerate the word, and we still harbor some poets in our midst, but for a long time now they have been complemented by trained newsmen. One of the first of that breed to join the magazine was Eben Roy Alexander, who came to TIME in 1939 as a veteran reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As managing editor from 1949 to 1960, he in a sense led TIME into its age of fully professional journalism...
...Carter was expressed last week by one of the U.S.S.R.'s most prominent experts on U.S. affairs, Georgi Arbatov, director of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies. Sipping Georgian brandy in his spacious office several blocks from the Kremlin, Arbatov discussed key issues with a few U.S. newsmen, including TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden. Excerpts...
Figueiredo immediately extended -perhaps thrust was a better word-an olive branch toward those who had opposed his candidacy. "I will promote a political opening," Figueiredo told newsmen. "And if anyone opposes it, I will arrest them, break them. And I mean it." The statement was predictably hard-nosed, coming as it did from Geisel's hand-picked successor-the fifth general designated to govern Brazil since a military junta ousted President Joao Goulart nearly 15 years ago. All the generals have been stern, but they have lately been disposed to give Brazilians a controlled measure of political freedom...
Under the bill's provisions, which created the U.S.'s first Official Secrets Act, the government could have prosecuted newsmen who published information they knew to be leaked; could have made mass arrests of demonstrators within sight or sound of the President (for trespassing upon a "temporary residence of the President"); in short, could have quashed virtually all public protest of government actions. The bill was, in the words of one editorial writer, "the embodiment of all that is punitive, vengeful and retrogressive in the Nixonian philosophy...
...every morning, the White House lobbying teams met in the East Wing office of Carter's congressional liaison aide, Frank Moore. There they plotted strategy for the day and then fanned out to appeal to anyone who could help: business executives, newsmen, friends of Senators. The pitch was always the same: America needs the energy bill to stop the decline of the dollar and convince foreign nations that the U.S. can put its own house in order...