Word: thoughtful
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Barbara and Gordon Ray, of Madison, Wis., want to adopt a child. They thought this would not be too difficult. Their doctors had told them it was very unlikely they could have a child of their own. When the two 28-year-olds applied to the state Health and Social Services Department, Mrs. Ray, who is 5 ft. 9 in. and weighed 210 Ibs., was told she had to lose weight. Her obesity was a health problem, explained the state physician who examined her. Mr. Ray, a shipping and mail clerk at the University of Wisconsin...
...Thomson was beaten in the November election, and the state's newly installed Governor, Hugh Gallen, has decided to give the patriotic slogan a rest, initially by removing it from his own letterheads. And what is the proposed new slogan for license plates? SCENIC NEW HAMPSHIRE. On second thought...
...Carter policy [on human rights] responds to the demands of our time, and it is very important that it receive even broader support. In the Western press, the thought has sometimes been expressed that the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, in whose success the Soviet Union is interested, have opened up possibilities of applying pressure on the U.S.S.R. on the question of human rights. In my opinion, such a viewpoint is not correct...
...then, Sonnenberg's profession was to be the midwife of stories, not their subject. He was one of the first modern public relations men. Indeed he had been at the game so long-"fashioning," as he once put it, "large pedestals for small statues"-that many people thought he had invented the p.r. business. He had not, but Sonnenberg outlived all its other pioneers, and was to ordinary flacks what Rubens is to LeRoy Neiman...
When he started out on the project, says Commission Chairman William J. McGill, he thought that the U.S. should have a public network like the BBC. But that, he now believes, should have been done more than 50 years ago, at the time broadcasting began. Public TV in Amer ica is now too diverse for planners to consider a centralized network. "You have to build out of the bedrock of existing structures," insists McGill, who is also president of Columbia University...