The cover article was powerful. Associate editor Janet Hawkins had accompanied Jennifer Harbury, J.D. '78, to a Guatemalan cemetery to witness the exhumation of remains said to be those of Harbury's husband, a missing guerrilla leader. Hawkins chronicled Harbury's long search for the truth about what had befallen her husband and how much United States officials knew about it. The combination of images on the cover would not have been attempted before the advent of computer technology. In all its parts, the issue reflects the latest overall redesign, by art director Elaine Bradley.
Magazines are organic.
A linotype slug sat on the desk of the managing editor of this magazine 30 years ago. It was a flat strip of metal three and a half inches long with raised letters on one edge. The message was a caution to editors to knock off their incessant fiddling. Type for the magazine had been set on a Linotype machine ever since 1898, when volume one, number one, passed through the press at the Crimson Printing Company. Any little boy would love a Linotype machine.