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...posters to members of advertising agencies, together with an invitation to let themselves go. Exactly 581 posters bearing inscriptions were returned to us, and duly examined by expert judges. Winning exhibits are now on display in New York's Grand Central Station. Naturally, many have an advertising slant: "The White Knight cheats at polo," "Pall Mall can't spall," "Avis is Hertz's Newsweek" "Xerox never comes up with anything original," and "I dreamed I could wear a Maidenform bra-Twiggy."." There is also the one about the two effeminate Braniff pilots, one of whom says...
...include some of the church's most articulate young thinkers. Neil Middleton, 35, is director of the Catholic publishing house, Sheed & Ward Ltd. Brian Wicker, 37, a lecturer in English literature at Birmingham University, writes for the Guardian. Terence Eagleton, 24, an editor of the New Left periodical Slant, is a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. All these writers found a platform for their views in New Blackfriars, and their writings are beginning to circulate in the U.S. This month the University of Notre Dame Press is publishing Wicker's Toward a Contemporary Christianity...
Taken by the high-resolution camera aboard Lunar Orbiter 2 from a point only 28.4 miles above the moon's surface, and about 150 miles south of Copernicus, the picture gave scientists a fresh slant on one of the moon's most prominent craters. For the first time they could, in effect, peer over the rim of Copernicus and get a close-in look at its walls, floor and central mountains-areas they had seen through earth-based telescopes, but only from directly above. The new look may have already shed new light on the processes that formed...
Reporters, said Hart, inevitably slant the news - often by not covering it. He cited the case of his own truth-in-packaging bill, passed by Congress last month, which laid down new standards for labeling of packaged foods (meaningless designations like "giant half-quart" are forbidden; air space be tween the contents and the top of the box is regulated). The bill was generally reported in the daily press but ignored in many publications, particularly the women's magazines. They were "sensitive," said Hart, "because the food industry was opposed to it, and the food industry spends...
Hart conceded that there is nothing wrong with slanting so long as "everyone is free to take a different slant." An adroit politician is "constantly working up ploys to make himself look a little better than he really is. Most of these ploys, incidentally, are successful." Hart gave an example from personal experience in the Senate: "A Michigan reporter in Washington wrote a piece that carried the headline HART EMERGING AS A LEADER IN THE SENATE, which...