Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Auerbach's theories of mimesis. A babble of French and German and Spanish fills the air. Nervous young Ph.D. candidates whiz past, heading for the Job Information Center on the fourth floor of Palmer House, where a giant board carries notices of late-breaking job openings. An October bulletin had listed only 375 job openings and "possible" job openings in English and language departments for next fall, down from 440 last year. Each listing drew from 100 to as high as 500 application letters and resumes. Those whose letters failed to win them advance appointments for interviews...
...ringing up large sales in guns of all types, merchants at Eagle Rock Plaza in Los Angeles complain that business has dropped sharply since local papers reported that Cepeda and Johnson were picked up there. At Glendale High School, alma mater of Actor John Wayne, a note on the bulletin board warns single teachers not to go unaccompanied to or from the faculty Christmas party. Adults who were attending night courses, says a school official, have dropped out "until the strangler is caught...
...American Stock Exchange. Péadeau (or "Pile-o-dough," as he is sometimes called in Canada) blew into Philadelphia only three months ago, quietly hired a staff of 50 local journalists and rented typewriter space for them in a vacant A&P supermarket across Market Street from the Bulletin. Péladeau pays the Bulletin to set type for the Journal, and three small suburban dailies to print it. "I don't invest in buildings," he says. "I invest in staff and promotion...
...dailies have begun protecting their flanks against the invader. The afternoon tabloid Daily News (circ. 232,000) is about to hire six new reporters for its 85-member news staff. The self-consciously respectable morning Inquirer (circ. 412,000) has added more racing news and gossip. At the evening Bulletin (circ. 556,000), reporters say privately that pressure is on to be livelier and more competitive...
Then I came to Harvard as a student myself, and learned the truth. The bulletin boards were overpopulated, that was certain, but the events they advertised didn't exactly turn people away for lack of room. The people hurrying through the streets were running to get to class on time, or maybe to get to the Coop before it closed to buy typing paper. The people in the cafes were reading reserve books from Lamont...