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Your issue on the atomic age was fascinating. I regret, however, your use of the mushroom, with its negative connotation, as the symbol for your SPECIAL SECTION. This comes at a time when the American Mushroom Institute is beginning a campaign to increase the consumption of mushrooms from 2.8 lbs. per capita to a much higher level. Perhaps by calling attention to the product, we will encourage Americans to increase their use of this nutritional commodity. Charles R. Harris, Executive Director American Mushroom Institute Kennett Square...
...days after the lights had gone out at ball parks across the country, the cracking bats and beery roar of major-league baseball again filled the muggy August air. Boston Bartender Michael Shain approved. "People don't want to read about contract and salary disputes in the sports section," said Shain, who manages the Batter's Box near Fenway Park. "It was the one place in the paper where those things could be avoided...
Most of Mydans' work was done for LIFE, which he joined in 1936 as the first issue was going to press. But he took his first pictures of consequence in the preceding year. At the age of 28, he joined the fabled team of photographers for the historical section of the U.S. Farm Security Administration, a group that included Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn. Examining an impoverished rural America, they made some of photography's most trenchant and memorable images. In the FSA, Mydans learned the moral dimension of photography. No eye cast upon the hardships of those...
...given certificates of merit. All the winners' names will appear next spring in a special insert in TIME; the top 20 will be profiled. Judging will be conducted by TIME and panels of distinguished educators and community leaders. To launch the awards, TIME last month published a special section in its campus editions called "Portraits in Excellence," in which 14 illustrious former college students, including Astronomer Carl Sagan, Journalist Barbara Walters, Architect I.M. Pei, Choreographer Agnes de Mille and IBM Board Chairman John Opel, were asked to look back at their school years and reflect on the question "What prepared...
...third department of the KGB's Third Chief Directorate, a daunting mouthful that essentially meant Yurchenko helped recruit and run foreign agents. Yurchenko came to Washington in 1975, charged with overseeing security arrangements for the embassy. In 1980 Yurchenko returned to Moscow, where he became head of the section responsible for, among other things, ferreting out double agents and leaks within the KGB. In April of this year Yurchenko was named deputy chief of intelligence operations in the U.S. and Canada, a position that theoretically would allow him to know the identity of every Soviet agent in those countries. Reports...