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...report does not make judgments about society's condition. It leaves that to the public and the experts, who are urged to offer comments and corrections. In time, all those statistics and surveys will give federal officials a clearer picture of the U.S. and help them tailor social policies more closely to the needs of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Mixed Report on Progress | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...told him a story," Singer said. "I once went into a tailor's in Warsaw and asked for a coat with crooked pockets. He told me I didn't need to ask, I could ask for straight pockets and they would still be crooked...In the same way, since humor is based on suffering, we will have humor for a million years...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Singer Suffers Uncertainty | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...went all up and down Massachusetts Avenue. "Dominick," O'Neill hailed an Italian tailor, "how's everything?" Dominick responded that the inflation was terrible; bread was up to 47? a loaf. "Tell me," asked O'Neill, "what kind of shape is the President in? Should he be impeached?" Answered Dominick: "You bet he should-I'm surprised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Judging Nixon: The Impeachment Session | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...that loudly. The sheer size of the U.S. has precluded the development of a truly national press like Britain's. The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal try to speak to the country at large, but almost all of the 1,760 dailies in the U.S. tailor themselves to the contours of their localities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Ten Best American Dailies | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...Young, 55, the son of a tailor raised in Detroit's Black Bottom ghetto, the celebration seemed "more like a coronation than an inauguration." It capped a lifetime of fighting for black rights, first as a union organizer at the Ford Motor Co. in the late 1930s, later as a leader of the leftist National Negro Labor Council in the '50s and as a politician in the '60s. A state senator since 1964, he fought for passage of an open-housing law and against a ban on busing children to integrate schools. In both cases, whites from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: New Men for Detroit and Atlanta | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

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