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...most medium-sized American cities, Wichita has been served by news organizations heavy with broadcast outlets and light on print. The Wichita area (pop. 400,000) has four local TV stations and ten radio stations, but only two daily papers. The morning Eagle (circ. 129,000) and the evening Beacon (58,000) are both owned by the absentee Ridder chain and share a single editorial staff. Efforts to organize a quality paper to compete with the bland Eagle and Beacon have repeatedly failed...
...conservatism." His solid reputation as an executive enabled him to land a $276,000 grubstake from KAKE'S board of directors, which represents some of Wichita's first families. The Sun's advertisers include many mainstays of the business community, who agree that the Eagle and Beacon have grown flabby...
...Radio Beacon. Further observations by Hewish and other radio astronomers soon put this tantalizing speculation to rest but eventually confirmed that a pulsar is a neutron star. Space, in fact, seems to be full of neutron stars. Since Hewish and his assistant, Jocelyn Bell, found the first one, about 100 more have been identified by astronomers. A neutron star is a bizarre object. It is formed when a giant star exhausts its nuclear fuel and collapses inward on itself, crushing much of its matter into a ball of neutrons some ten miles in diameter-but so dense that a thimbleful...
Also of Interest: "Pablo Picasso--Printmaker" through December 8 at the Museum of Fine Arts (Arborway subway to Northeastern stop). An exhibition of books on Hans Holbein's sixteen-frame woodcut "The Dance of Death", through Sept. 30 at the Boston Athenaeum, 10 Beacon St. In Boston. Photographs by Dadaist Man Ray in the Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College, Sept. 30-Nov. 3. And, for all you frustrated peeping toms, photographs by Ron Galella, who is currently making a fortune off his new book on Jackie Onassis, at the Boston Harbor Campus of UMass, through October...
...best places for all-out grocery shopping are Broadway Super Market (468 Broadway St.), Johnnie's Foodmaster (730 Broadway in Somerville) and Star Market (in Porter Sq. and on Beacon St.). Broadway Super Market is the closest and the smallest of the three. Johnnie's is farther away, but has some excellent sale prices on specified items each week. Star Market is open until midnight, provides a very convenient check cashing service and has the best prices...