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...Holiday Inn in Palo Alto, Calif. Not far away, Maxim's de Pékin serves haute cuisine at $70 a head. The regiments of bicycles that clog the streets have been joined by Mercedes sedans and Japanese-made Hino tourist buses. Earlier this month, the Peking Daily (circ. 500,000) ran a photo of an attractive woman and her family standing next to a new Toyota. Thanks to an income of more than $18,000 last year, Chicken Farmer Sun Guiying had just become the first peasant in the 35-year history of the People's Republic...
Some worthy papers might qualify for more national influence if they were not overshadowed by even better nearby competitors. The San Jose Mercury News (circ. 245,000) and Sacramento Bee (circ. 219,000) are outranked as voices of the West by the Los Angeles Times. The Orlando Sentinel (circ. 213,000) is one of the better papers in the country but places only third among Florida's dailies. Baltimore's venturesome Sun and Evening Sun (combined circ. 349,000), with a fine political staff and seven foreign bureaus, gamely fight against the Washington Post. Long Island...
...cities are particularly well served by a journalistic phenomenon that is sadly in decline: local daily competition. In Dallas, the Morning News (circ. 336,000) and Times Herald (circ. 270,000), both of which were somewhat listless until a few years ago, have spurred each other to make the city one of the best covered in the country. In Detroit, similarly happy results have come from the face-off between the Free Press (circ. 635,000) and News (circ...
...Luther. Other awards: in general local reporting, to Long Island's Newsday for examining federal intervention in the medical treatment of severely handicapped children, most notably in the much litigated case of Baby Jane Doe; in editorial writing, to Editor Albert Scardino, 35, of the weekly Georgia Gazette (circ. 2,500), largely for attacks on official wrongdoing; in feature writing, to Seattle Times Reporter Peter Mark Rinearson, 29, for describing the development of the Boeing 757 passenger jet; in feature photography, to Anthony Suau, 27, of the Denver Post, primarily for pictures of mass starvation in Ethiopia...
...noteworthy smaller papers are as feisty and controversial as the Georgia Gazette, but they all seemingly share that philosophy and apply it in all sorts of settings. The Akron Beacon Journal (circ. 163,300), Kansas' Wichita Eagle-Beacon (circ. 120,900), Oregon's Eugene Register-Guard (circ. 65,200) and North Carolina's Fayetteville Times and Observer (combined circ. 66,900) serve sizable communities away from big cities. They are matched in quality by suburban competitors of papers on TIME's ten best list: the Quincy Patriot Ledger (circ. 89,300) south of Boston, the Bergen...