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...entitled to little information, the public to even less: businessmen had not progressed much beyond William Henry Vanderbilt's "the public be damned" attitude. To get the access it wanted, FORTUNE agreed to show corporations articles in advance, to let them comment and correct errors but not to edit or dictate changes. About 15 years ago, FORTUNE abandoned the practice that New England Business is reviving. "I wish 'em well, but they're opening the doors to problems," says Lewis Young, the editor in chief of Business Week...
...midweek the "fresh start" fizzled. Democratic Congressman James Scheuer, who heads one of the six congressional panels investigating the agency, charged that Hernandez personally intervened to allow Dow Chemical Co. to edit a July 1981 agency report about dioxin contamination of two rivers and a bay near its Midland, Mich., plant. EPA officials agreed to Dow's suggested deletions of critical passages linking the deadly poison to fertility problems and birth defects, as well as the conclusion that "Dow's discharge represented the major source, if not the only source, of [dioxin] contamination" in the waterways...
...wrong. Wouk's script ran 962 pages, contained 1,785 scenes and called for 285 speaking parts, along with thousands of extras. It was shot in 267 locations, in six countries and on two continents, and it took 13 months to film and twelve more to edit. There were about 50,000 costumes, and Mitchum alone had 112 changes. When the cameras stopped, Curtis had 1 million ft., or 185 hrs. of film, which he cut down to 81,000 ft. That will translate, minus commercials, into about 15 hr. of air time...
Although these journals appear to be an in exhaustible reservoir for the untainted adulation which football is lacking, a close reading shows them to be quite a bit more calculating than what might first be presumed. Mastheads reveal that often the same group of people edit two or three different magazines, some of which unexplainably provide altogether different predictions and analysis. And these predictions sometimes are quite non-committal, apparently to avoid direct confrontation with highly partisan potential readers...
BRUCE M. METZGER probably has saved more trees than Smokey the Bear, and Metzger doesn't even live in the woods. Or at least not literally. A New Testament scholar, Metzger was chosen by Reader's Digest to edit its new edition of the Bible. At the beginning of this month, Reader's Digest published its condensed version, which excludes more than a quarter of a million words from the Holy Scriptures Among other things. Metzger cut half the Old Testament The best known passages remain intact--creation still takes a full week--but some repetitious portions were nixed. Metzger...