Word: circe
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...Rolling Stone has retreated into rock-'n'-roll coverage, and "alternative" weeklies have found that stereo-equipment supplements are more lucrative than political manifestoes. But at least one rallying cry can still be heard above the mellowspeak. It comes from the San Francisco-based monthly Mother Jones (circ. 222,000), which calls itself "a magazine for the rest...
Like many newspaper owners who sell out to a chain, Robert McKinney decided to stay on and help run the place. But McKinney did not like what the Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper group (82 dailies with a combined circ. of 3.5 million), was doing to his Santa Fe New Mexican (circ. 17,960). So he sued to get it back, and last week he won. Federal District Judge Santiago Campos ordered Gannett to return the New Mexican after a six-member jury ruled that the chain had breached an employment contract McKinney signed when he sold...
...Circulation rose 154,588 last year, which is about as many copies as the San Francisco Examiner sells every day. When circulation spurted another 136,604 in the first three months of this year-surpassing the New York News, then the nation's largest daily-the Journal (circ. 1.8 million) eased up on radio and television promotion and raised its newsstand price from 30? to 35?. Warren H. Phillips, 54, chairman of the parent Dow Jones & Co.,* said the paper simply could not satisfy the demand: "If we let it go on at that rate...
...their 20s or early 30s, many of them professionals or skilled workers. Besides driving taxis, they are engaged in a host of businesses, most visibly clothing boutiques. Many are Israeli trained doctors, scientists, engineers and teachers. The Israelis have their own weekly newspaper, Our Israel, published in New York (circ. 30,000 per week). They also have their own Sunday morning television show in the New York area, Isravision, and a three-hour daily radio program...
Harper's (circ. 325,000) had been on the block for nearly a year. Religious and other special-interest groups made inquiries but were turned away as unsuitable owners; other prospective buyers were unwilling to absorb the maga zine's hefty operating losses and its liability of $3 million in prepaid subscriptions. Editor Lewis H. Lapham and two partners failed in a last-hour rescue attempt...