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Business coverage in most dailies chronically lacks space and manpower. On business developments of major national significance, such as a raise in interest rates or a steel price boost, business editors seldom interpret or supplement a Page One wire story by interviewing the bankers, economists, labor leaders who can give remote decisions local dollars-and-cents impact. One reason is that business news is frequently entrusted to a shaky old hand or an untested new one. "Being assigned to business," sniffs a Phoenix reporter, "is like being made dog editor." City editors too often agree. Thus, on a big local...
...ignorance." When the big news broke of the sacking of Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich, TIME began to dig for last week's comprehensive coverage and this week's Khrushchev cover story, tapping all the available intelligence sources in Warsaw, Prague, Belgrade. Bonn, Munich, London and Washington. To supplement the news and analysis from correspondents in the field. TIME called on the resources of its library of past Russian events, and its "Russian Desk," presided over by two ex-Russian scholars. From all of these sources, Associate Editor Godfrey Blunden assembled and wrote TIME'S stories of Nikita...
Pounds into Platinum. For more than three generations of Sunday-supplement readers, the Aga Khan was a fabulous figure who managed to combine the affluence and honors of an Oriental potentate with the predilections of a European playboy. His bland face and portly (240-odd Ibs.) figure, resembling those of a large and benevolent turtle, were constantly caught by news cameras-at the Royal Enclosure at Ascot, on a fashionable beach at Cannes, at a lavish masquerade ball in Venice, or amidst panoplies of Oriental splendor as devoted followers balanced his weight in gifts of diamonds, gold or platinum...
...Pastor Higgins announced that he had received three applications for membership, and asked if there were more. Nine people came forward. (By week's end, membership had reached 16, including four whites.) To gather up the offering, pots and pans from the parsonage were pressed into service to supplement the four collection plates. In all, the throng contributed...
FIRST TELEPHONE CABLES from California to Hawaii will be laid under Pacific Ocean to supplement radiophone service. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and Hawaiian Telephone Co. are spending $37 million on two 2,400-mile cables, which by fall will carry 36 simultaneous conversations, permit direct dialing by operators between Hawaii and 6,500 U.S. communities...