Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fuerbringer comes to this new assignment from eight notably successful years as managing editor of TIME. Under his editorship, TIME'S worldwide circulation has grown from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000, and the magazine has been enriched both in visual quality and in the scope of its reporting, including such important new departments as Law and Essay. Otto came to TIME as a writer in 1942, after ten years as a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He became a senior editor of TIME in 1946, assistant managing editor in 1951, and managing editor...
...Scope & Symptoms. Foreign observers of U.S. urban riots are frequently stunned at the vigor of the American poor. How, they wonder, can a looter claim to be hungry and oppressed, yet walk off with a color-television set as easily as if he were hefting a loaf of bread...
Clearly, American poverty is unique, both in its scope and its symptoms. According to a U.C.L.A. study, "it may refer to a family's or person's ability to purchase goods and services, to the opportunities open to individuals or groups for improving their economic position, [yet] it has subjective dimensions as well, determined by some kind of norms accepted by the society at large. People who fall below the norm do not necessarily consider themselves to be poor, and people who are above the norm may feel poverty stricken...
...sometimes, I must confess, to the point where I feel it is boring." To report this news, the papers hire youngsters fresh from college and pay them reasonably well; otherwise, editorial budgets are lean. In three or four years, reporters generally move on to publications of more national scope...
...will be rather restricted. There will probably be some board, consisting of both permanent and elected members, to regulate the extension of SDR's as well as explicit regulations limiting the circumstances under which they may be extended. But the institution, once started, will steadily expand in both the scope and depth of its power; the circumstances will not have to be quite so special, and the limit on drawing will be raised...