Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone who has ever written a letter to the editors already knows, TIME'S weekly contract with its readers does not end once the magazine goes to press. Every one of the 1,000 or more letters that arrive in the mail each week receives a reply from TIME'S Letters Department, which is headed by Maria Luisa Cisneros and staffed by 13 assistants. The letters department also performs a less well-known task: answering the 150 or so letters a week from people requesting information-some additional bit of elaboration or an answer to a question. That...
...have kept Washington gossips busy for months, and now it seems official. Senator Eugene McCarthy has moved out of his Washington home and has rented an apartment at the Sheraton-Park Hotel. Neither McCarthy nor Abigail, his wife of 24 years, offered any explanation, and the Senator's press secretary insisted that "no divorce is contemplated." The word in Washington, however, was that lawyers for both sides were at work on a legal separation; after one year, that would constitute grounds for divorce in the District of Columbia...
Skolnick lives in his parents' modest duplex home on Chicago's South Side, supported mainly by his father's union pension and social security benefits. He can move his wheelchair, but only with difficulty, and must be chauffeured to his press conferences and court appearances. Working with him are 30 or so volunteers whom Skolnick has organized into the Committee to Clean Up the Courts. Like him, most of them have grievances against the courts. Each week, they pore over stock records, title transfers and other documents for evidence of judicial mischief. The eyes and ears...
...presenting the program, Tommy and Dick are not exactly plunging bravely into the unknown. The Canadian commercial network transmitted the show on schedule last spring, and ever since, Tommy has toured the U.S., screening the tape for Congressmen, Federal Communications commissioners and the press. The viewers' overwhelming reaction was that the program was not only inoffensive, but probably one of the best Brothers shows of the season...
...know how we ever did with out the LP," says Composer Roy Harris. "It is to music what the printing press was to literature...