Word: adding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several years, the thriving morning Herald, the country's No. 5 paper in total ad linage, has steadily outstripped the afternoon News, Miami's only other daily. While Herald circulation rose to 381,000, the News slipped to 119,000. But Herald Publisher John S. Knight, president of the Knight chain, did not want to buy the liberal-leaning News; and News Publisher James M. Cox Jr., whose six-paper chain includes the Atlanta Constitution, was loath to fold his Miami outlet...
...story was right out of TV's spy-spoofing Get Smart! When a top CIA man named Hans V. Tofte advertised his Washington basement apartment for rent, another CIA man named Kenneth Slocum answered the ad and then grimly snitched that he had spied classified documents lying around Tofte's pad. In turn, Tofte grimly complained at the office that he had just been doing some homework on the papers-and then mentioned that $19,000 worth of his wife's jewelry had vanished after Slocum's visit...
...final reports trickled in, U.S. magazine publishers totted up their best half-year profits ever. For the first time since 1961, Curtis Publishing reported a six-month net profit of $368,000; ad revenues were up 18% on the Saturday Evening Post, 20% on the Ladies' Home Journal, and 40% on American Home. Time Inc. continued to pace the industry with a record net income of $17,730,000, up $4,095,000 from the same period in 1965. McGraw-Hill Inc. was in second place, with a net income...
...tough new federal laws to "deal with strikes which threaten irreparable damage to the national interest." No such legislation has yet been proposed, and until it is, the Government can do little but muddle through crippling work stoppages in the transportation industry. The Administration's next exercise in ad-lib arbitration will most likely come when the militant railroad brotherhoods hold long-postponed negotiations with companies that control nearly all of the U.S.'s railroads...
...date, the Hiroshima World Friendship Center, an organization of Japanese and American pacifists, protested that this was the anniversary of the first A-bomb raid. Luci's rumored reaction may be apocryphal, but it is not atypical: "O.K., how about December 7?" Another outfit, calling itself the Ad Hoc Committee for the August 6 Protest Against the War in Viet Nam, announced its intention to picket the National Shrine and the White House throughout the wedding celebration...