Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state (TIME, Sept. 13). A telepathic organization called the Fellowship of the Ancient Mind has solemnly applied to Los Angeles officials for a salvage permit in order to rescue art works from the ruins after the Ultimate Quake. For the first time in years, civil defense officials report a run on survival kits, consisting of first-aid pamphlets and instructions about what to do in case of fires, floods or earthquakes...
Even more unusual are the changes in attitude urged by the new guidelines. "It remains each man's burden in conscience," says one section of the recommendations report, "to decide the rectitude of his country's policies as a world power, or its involvement in the armament race, or its participation in wars against other men. And the decision of his conscience must be made known by every legitimate means, but especially by the exercise of his vote...
...strained efforts at sophistication, both 60 Minutes and First Tuesday often take what one producer calls "lightly satirical" potshots at easy targets. Though irony sometimes amplifies a story-as in the case of NBC's report on religious bigotry in Northern Ireland and CBS's caustic look at Palm Beach millionaires-it can just as easily be gratuitous. Last week the First Tuesday segments dealt with a weight-reducing "fat farm" and a Christian anti-Communist crusade. Both fell into the void between irony and farce. Harry Reason-er's 60 Minutes visit with the Duke...
...things, more black foremen, a Negro plant manager, abolition of union dues for Negroes and, for good measure, replacement of Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend with a Negro. On Jan. 27 another wildcat picket line closed Chrysler's Eldon Avenue axle plant for half a day. On one occasion, report United Auto Workers officials, a Chrysler foreman was doused with gasoline. Eight weeks ago, a company labor representative, a Negro, was stabbed in the back when he told a DRUM member that he was being suspended for repeatedly jostling a foreman...
...rule only reaches the foothills of a Himalayan problem. Accounting practices, on which laymen rely as a warrant of truth, have grown increasingly elastic. Tax laws give companies great latitude in deciding how to treat both assets and costs that affect profits. Frequently, companies quite legally report results one way to the public and another to the tax collector. The conglomerates in particular are worried. Says Chairman Laurence Tisch Jr. of Loew's Theaters: "Accounting tricks are taking over. There's no rule on how to keep the books. You can make up your own mind...