Word: circe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baltimore, Richmond and Washington, D.C., editions of the Afro-American have a combined circulation of only 97,600. Muhammad Speaks, the propaganda organ of Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslim sect, has a circulation of 400,000. The leading black magazine is the LIFE-like Ebony (circ. 1,216,626), published by John H. Johnson, who also publishes the newsweekly Jet (circ. 394,134) and the polemical journal Negro Digest (circ...
...November, bullets were fired through the windows of the Street Journal's offices. The glass front door was smashed, and 2,500 copies of the paper (circ. 8,000) were stolen. On Christmas Day, typesetting equipment was smashed and filled with enamel paint. In January, a commune member's car was destroyed by fire-bombing while it was parked outside commune headquarters. Intimidating phone calls became common; some threatened death...
...merger, which will create the world's largest printing-publishing-papermaking combine (annual sales: $1.1 billion), will bring a much-needed infusion of management and money to I.P.C. The company publishes the Daily Mirror, Britain's largest daily (circ. 5,000,000), several gaudy Sunday tabloids and 200 trade and women's magazines; it has big holdings in British commercial TV and a 30% interest in Boston-based Cahners Publishing Co., which puts out 37 trade magazines...
...feud began in the fall of 1968, when Fasi, a onetime junk dealer and perennial political campaigner, was making his fourth attempt to win the mayoralty. Both newspapers, the morning Advertiser (circ. 72,000) and the evening Star-Bulletin (circ. 123,000), endorsed his opponent. In one issue, the Bulletin ran a photographic view of Honolulu's memorial to the battleship Arizona, marred by junked automobiles on property incorrectly identified as leased to Fasi. The candidate seethed. He seethed again when the paper enjoined its readers to "Wake Up Hawaii-Vote Republican" beneath a full-page advertisement for Democrat...
...Formula. Along with a younger rival called the St. Pauli Zeitung (circ. 535,000), the Nachrichten carries the sort of news and pictures that no other paper sees fit to print. As basic how-to (and how-much) sheets, the papers are vital to Reeperbahn newcomers who do not know the cost of a "car-strip" girl ($4 to $6) or an all-nighter ($40). Outside of Hamburg's St. Pauli area, where their success lies, the papers have sought to establish themselves as national arbiters of porn. The Nachrichten runs regular reviews of erotic art shows, sex books...