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...strike a balance." When the paper is serving a heavy diet of what she calls "problem stories" on drug abuse and prostitution, says Paxson, she likes to offset that by sending a reporter to cover an event like the midwinter ball in St. Petersburg, Fla. Paxson speaks for many editors, male and female. Ranking men executives, in fact, are often the strongest advocates of leaving women's pages in their old mode. Frequently changes occur only after restless women subordinates agitate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Flight from Fluff | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

Black Hundreds. After sweeping analyses of Russian history and economics, Trotsky swings into the highlights of the 1905 St. Petersburg uprising like a man directing a painter of social-realist murals. He describes the January massacre of peaceful petitioners in front of the czar's palace -the Bloody Sunday that snapped the last thread of respect for the monarchy. In the last three months of the year, anger and discontent erupted in workers' strikes and military mutinies in Russia's major cities. After 50 days of what Trotsky called "ruthless object lessons," the czar and his Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vintage Red | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

Despite the controversy of future events, 1905 was clearly Trotsky's year. At the time of the St. Petersburg uprising, he was 26 and highly regarded for his political journalism. ("The Pen is here," cried Lenin's wife when a fugitive Trotsky barged into her London apartment at dawn.) While other Russian socialists spent themselves in factional squabbles abroad ("Deal with Russians," said Marx, "and all hell breaks loose"), Trotsky made his way back to St. Petersburg and the action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vintage Red | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

There are other very good scenes: Nicholas on his knees apologizing to Alexandra for abdicating; Lenin's triumphant entry into the St. Petersburg train station where he has come to seize the power that was "lying on the streets waiting to be picked up;" the beginning of the First World War just before Intermission, where pictures of Europe's diplomats and monarchs disolve into each other to the sound of marching soldiers and national anthems...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: The Romanovs in Hollywood | 2/18/1972 | See Source »

...West, they assail those who they feel do not deserve it. "I see people going down to the welfare office with new automobiles and here's me driving a six-year-old car," protests Seminole County Deputy Sheriff William Chandler. "To me," adds St. Petersburg Motel Operator Robert Van Auker, "welfare is the most stinking thing there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Grumpy Mood of Florida Voters | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

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