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...name, one vote was even recorded temporarily for Mao Tse-tung. Finally, in a grace note that brought the convention to its feet cheering, the Alabama delegation cast all of its 37 votes for Eagleton, explaining that had Wallace been the nominee, he would have wanted the right to select his own running mate and McGovern deserved no less. When Eagleton was at last confirmed...
Like the heroines in its television soap operas, the Columbia Broadcasting System is strongly attracted to interesting strangers. Last week, for the second time in a year, CBS reached far outside its own management ranks to select a new president. He is Arthur R. Taylor, a 37-year-old corporate Wunderkind with no broadcasting experience, who for the past two years has served as vice president and chief financial officer of International Paper Co. Taylor succeeds Charles T. Ireland Jr., who died unexpectedly last month at age 51 after less than a year on the job. Ireland, himself a surprise...
...auto plants in Detroit in pursuit of exciting photographs. "Human reach," he says, "is photography's reach. A camera is the unique, most dynamic extension of man. It can take him into veiled worlds and let him be an eyewitness to dangerous, inaccessible events. Our job is to select those pictures that have immediate impact, an impact that words alone sometimes cannot convey...
...staff, including Arnold Drapkin and Mary Themo of Color Projects and Assistant Picture Editors Michele Stephenson and Deborah Pierce, review thousands of new photographs each week. They also have access to the 18 million items in the Time Inc. picture collection. From this vast choice the editors select the 75 to 95 pictures we use each week...
...indeed, incomes above $50,000 and inheritances were to be taxed as severely as McGovern suggests, who could actually afford to endow universities? Would financing have to be turned over to the Government in this area also? Would this not necessitate converting to a system in which only select students may attend college? Is this equitable...