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...one kind of TIME story is a particular favorite in our own office, and it may not be bragging too much to suggest that TIME invented the form. This is the preelection look of an American city, congressional district or state, in which in a brief space we look at two contenders deep in political combat, consider their personalities, quote their remarks, judge their style and assess their chances-all against a background of what currents of opinion are stirring among the voters. These stories, as our readers know, can be as terse and tight as a one-paragraph note...
Kennedy had no comment about the test, stood on the March 2 speech in which he explained why the U.S. felt the new series necessary. All that the U.S. Government had to say was contained in a laconic, one-paragraph statement from the AEC, which announced that the detonation had taken place at 10:45 a-m-E.S.T.. and was in the ''intermediate-yield range." Two days later, the U.S. fired a second shot, also in the "intermediate range." That term meant that the power of both explosions was of more than 20 kilotons, but less...
...much of the paper's shorter material is useless. Inconsequential one-paragraph news stories merely add to the welter of material, and the more homey ones are reminiscent of Grit, a family weekly that used to specialize in colloquial good will and pictures of giraffes. If there is anything this country doesn't need it, is another Grit...
...Guinea follow the rules if it wanted the aid. Finally, a few weeks ago, the Guineans quietly signed on the dotted line-so quietly, in fact, that no announcement was made at all in Conakry newspapers until the U.S. embassy protested and then the news was buried in a one-paragraph item in the back pages...
...first time at his party.) A demanding but undogmatic critic, Massachusetts-born, Harvard-educated ('17) Atkinson writes his views in pencil in a neat hand on a ruled yellow pad. Against one of journalism's toughest deadlines-he usually has barely an hour to catch an edition after the first-night curtain falls-he sends his polished copy through in one-paragraph "takes." When a review is finished, he reads the proof but seldom changes a word...