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...result, the 252 editorial staffers who turn out Newsday are trained on the job in the paper's brisk style. Though Newsday is published just outside New York City, it has hired few experienced reporters from New York publications. "We get our best people from middle-sized papers in middle-sized towns," says Hathway. "Towns like Charlotte, N.C., or Columbus, Ohio, have given us better reporters," adds Managing Editor Bill Mcllwain. "They're a little bit hungrier, and they don't come on like a bunch of old China hands doing you a favor...
Those White House Calls. Brisk demand has given fresh urgency to some projects for new oil sources. Next fall in Alberta, a $240 million plant built by a Sun Oil Co. Canadian subsidiary will begin extracting 45,000 bbl. of oil a day from the Athabasca tar sands, which contain 369 billion bbl. of recoverable oil. Interest is also reviving in Colorado's vast deposits of oil shale. Recently, some producers in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas raised basic crude-qil prices 80 to $3,08 per bbl.-closer to the point at which extraction of oil from shale could...
...warming atmosphere that has drawn Eastern and Western Europe closer, one frigid holdout has been Bulgaria. Now, the tiny Balkan nation is also thawing a bit. Last week Todor Zhivkov, 55, Premier of Bulgaria and the brisk, burly first secretary of its Communist Party, made his first official trip to Western Europe, spending three days on the French Riviera and three more in Paris with President Charles de Gaulle...
Faced with a somewhat stodgy paper, Bradlee ordered a brisk series of changes. To replace the rambling, disorganized pieces that often glutted Page One, he prescribed straightforward news stories that come quickly to the point...
...housewife in the Titusville neighborhood points out four whiskey houses in the block-long alley behind her home. What must be the largest Negro shoe-shine stand in the state does a brisk business in liquor. A factory worker estimates that there are 20 whiskey houses in a 12-block area around his plant. A hippie who works as a part-time mail clerk for an insurance firm prefers four smaller houses near the sprawling University of Alabama Medical Center -- they have juke boxes. But as for reliable estimates of the total number, one Negro professional man who, like...