Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Telling the Difference. One reason the interloper failed is that the Green Sheet bears a reasonable resemblance to a real newspaper. It hefts like a newspaper-some issues run to 166 pages. It runs news stories and banner headlines. These days, in fact, only the discerning reader can tell the difference between the real thing and most giveaways trying to look like a regular newspaper. Five years ago in California, the Contra Costa Times, a doddering twice-a-weekly with 5,550 paid subscribers, started distributing copies free. Since then, ad revenue has doubled, the pa per has turned profitable...
...Communists. In Hamburg, Max Schmeling is proud of his gleaming Coca-Cola bottling plant, where he arrives each morning like any other businessman. On the same street, kids hurry off to school, blissfully ignorant of Schmeling or Hitler or Bismarck. Then from every window appears that national German banner, the feather bed being hung...
Navy was a seven-point underdog. But at Annapolis they raised a banner, "Home of Roger Staubach," and for Navy that evened all the odds. Showing an admirable taste for tradition, he completed eleven out of 13 passes, personally accounted for 222 yds. and four touchdowns as Navy won 34-14. Army Coach Paul Dietzel had the air of a man preparing the excuse for next year. "Staubach is head and shoulders above all the other quarterbacks," he said...
...named Henri Christophe tore the white center out of the French tricolor and proclaimed himself emperor of the world's first black republic. Nine years of bloody rebellion had, in fact, led to the extermination of Haiti's white population. Today Christophe's flag, a somber red and blue banner, still flies over the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince--a reminder of a painful past...
...quintet reciprocated by singing the "Star Spangled Banner" to a slow piano accompaniment in five somewhat off-key parts. As they left, the quintet were given water-colors, silver key-rings, and diaries made in the school shop...