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...Economic Research gave a qualified answer in its annual report: on a percentage basis, industrial output in Russia has risen more rapidly than in the U.S. since 1928, but only about one-fourth as rapidly as the Russians claim. Russia's growth statistics are peppered with gaps, probably omit some stagnant or declining industries, use highly doubtful totals. Most of Russia's gain has been the result of massive diversion of manpower to industry, a regimented movement roughly similar to the voluntary exodus to the cities that took place in the U.S. in the late 19th century...
...added that, nevertheless, the newspaper was able to play down "inflammatory news," omit the "irrelevant" identification of Negroes in crime stories, and print pictures of Negroes on the sports page...
Unwritten Rule. Although most editors use wire-service stories of Sunday network TV shows, many are still sensitive about acknowledging that the news in their pages originated on TV. When the Fort Worth Star-Telegram printed its story on Mikoyan's TV interview, it omitted the name of the program on which he appeared, and that of the broadcasting company (NBC's Meet the Press). Editors are particularly pained at picking up news stories developed by local TV stations. In Chicago some rewritemen still invoke the old unwritten city-room rule to omit the names of the show...
Ford advised the Congregational-Presbyterian group to avoid a campaign for renewal of University reaffirmation of a "Protestant-Puritan" tradition and to omit "explicit, self-conscious missionary activity." College religious groups can make their greatest contribution by assisting the individual to acquire "a sense of integrity and consistency" during a period of constantly changing values and aspirations, Ford declared...
...himself those highly colored, stylistic tropes that Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. once called the "Macaulay flowers of literature." But if the book never enticed the readership he thought it deserved, it may have been because its nine volumes did not show that he had followed his own editorial creed ("Omit! Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit . . ."). In Author Samuels' view, Adams' philosophy of history parallels Tolstoy's in War and Peace, i.e., history is "a vast irony, a web of paradoxes," and the hero is merely froth on the crest of all great...