Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever heard of anything bigger?" Few had: Roy Thomson, 65, already owner of 27 papers in Canada, seven in the U.S. and nine in Scotland (plus TV stations on both sides of the Atlantic), had just agreed to pay $14 million for most of Britain's great Kemsley chain, including twelve provincial papers and three Sunday nationals, one of them the Sunday Times.* Combined circulation of Thomson's acquisitions : 14 million...
...think it might-making it an impossible place to live, rather than almost impossible the way it is now." The ocean will also grow warmer, and will be forced to release dissolved carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. This will increase the greenhouse effect. At some point in this chain reaction, the Antarctic icecap will melt, adding enough water to the ocean to drown nearly all of the earth's great cities...
...With their mounting knowledge, oceanographers are talking with new confidence of the ocean as a source of food. Life began in the sea, and most of it lives there still, grazing on the microscopic plants that swarm in the sunlit upper waters. At the end of a long food-chain (diatoms, protozoa, tiny crustaceans, little fish, etc.) are the fish, lobsters, shrimps and whales that are hunted by humans. Says Iselin: "We are not harvesting the seas. We are just hunting-catching something here and there...
...Chain Store Scion Huntington (A. & P.) Hartford, 48, quietly mimeographed word that he has acquired the bulk of a coral isle in the Bahamas, just off the city of Nassau. On Philanthropist Hartford's program: to develop the place as a vacation paradise for "people of quality from all walks of life. There will be no automobiles, no roulette wheels, no honky-tonks." What "Hunty" Hartford wanted most to create was "an atmosphere of cultural enjoyment.'' It seemed a pity that his latest good work will be located on grounds that some may shun for esthetic reasons...
Cinemactress Kim Novak winged back to the U.S. from a 30-day conquest of Europe, where her name was linked with enough swains to make a chain. On the honors list: Cinemactor Gary Grant