Word: veteran
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...prepared by a team of writers, correspondents and researchers, headed by Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, a veteran of many TIME departments. Shnayerson was long-time Education editor before he helped to start TIME'S present Law section, and is now responsible for editing TIME'S Essay. His writing staff included Associate Editors Timothy Foote and Gary Clarke, and Contributing Editors Lance Morrow, Christopher Cory and Philip Herrera, along with TIME'S former London Bureau Chief Robert T. Elson, the author of TIME INC. The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise...
...1950s, the Post suffered a severe attack of television, which in a single electronic flash pre-emoted the role of family entertainer. Whittaker Chambers' "I Was the Witness" and Veteran Pete Martin's "I Call On" interviews with celebrities set alltime records for newsstand sales, and circulation grew to 6,000,000; but it was a lowest-common-denominator readership. Advertisers lost faith in the Post audience and moved their accounts to TV or to more modern or specialized publications...
Valachi's career coincides with the rise of the Cosa Nostra itself and reads like a kind of how-to-succeed manual for middle-echelon mobsters. At 18, Valachi was already a veteran "wheelman" (getaway driver), but he made the mistake of joining an "Irish gang." That move so displeased the Italian underworld that while Valachi was serving time for theft, he received as chastisement a knife wound that ran under his heart and around to his back, requiring 38 stitches...
...veteran of 22 years in Congress, Powell was banished in 1967 on charges that he misused some $40,000 of public funds. Now he had returned from exile. Re-elected by his faithful Harlem constituency six weeks after his expulsion, and re-elected again in November, the wayward sheep was back from his retreat on the Caribbean isle of Bimini, ready and anxious to rejoin the fold. For five hours, the House debated the issue of reseating Powell, airing in the process nearly all his public and private transgressions. Then its members voted 251 to 160 to let Powell take...
Described by one admiring colleague as "ten sons of bitches with table manners," the team is headed by Ray Stephens, 41, an 18-year A.P. veteran who contends that Washington has become too complex to be covered by the traditional "bang-bang bulletin" wire service approach. All too often, he claims, decisions affecting countless citizens or millions of taxpayer dollars are made by "an anonymous civil servant who is neither responsible to the electorate nor responsive to its voice." Pinpointing such officials and exposing governmental deception normally require weeks of persistent, tedious probing...