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Elated by last week's general ruling, Hill made plans to press on through the courts for an injunction against WPAZ. "This is a boon to every newspaperman who has had his stuff swiped," he said. "This lifting of stories was just like getting my pocket picked." Some other Pennsylvania editors agreed, including those pestered by opposition papers who do not bother to do any reporting on their own. For the Supreme Court made it clear that its ruling was a warning to newspapers as well as broadcasters...
...Brash Intruder. Most cities around the world are delighted to have a Hilton, and scores vie for them. A Hilton is a boon to the tourist business, since many Americans (who make up about 50% of all Hilton's guests) will go more readily to a city where they can find a modern hotel with a reassuringly familiar name. Egypt's take from tourism increased $12 million a year after Hilton moved in; Turkey gained $2.5 million in foreign exchange. A Hilton usually forces other hotels in the area to improve their standards (their celebrated old-fashioned personal...
...Crown contended that Martelli was caught with shoes that had hollowed-out secret compartments in the heels and that his cigarette packages contained wafer-thin pads with secret codes and passwords. Finally, there was the case of Harold Adrian Russell Philby, journalist, ex-Foreign Office official, and boon companion of Communist Spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, whose reappearance in the news recalled the most notorious of Britain's sex-and-spy scandals...
...newest luxury liner Canberra, when she sailed from Southampton one afternoon last week, were 1,700 Britons who had paid only $28 each for the 21-day, 12,000-mile voyage to Australia. If the tourist-class passengers were getting a bargain, they represented an even greater boon for population-hungry Australia, which still likes to boast that it is "more purely British than Britain" and has spent $128 million since 1945 to lure close to a million emigrants from the mother country...
...November 1868, James once again took up his medical studies and worked with sufficient tenacity to earn an M.D. degree the following spring. Although his excellent performance on the examinations was a temporary boon to his spirits, by autumn he had begun to decline rapidly. The next three years were to be his worst; a sense of moral impotence constantly plagued him. While suicide seldom seemed like a "live" option, thoughts of taking his life never wholly departed from his mind...