Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Figures. All together, daily circulation of Chicago's papers has declined since 1960 from 2.4 million to 2.2 million, despite a 1% population increase in Cook County. No financial figures are available because both the Chicago Tribune Co. and Field Enterprises are privately owned, but it is known that the two morning papers turn a profit. During the past decade, the Sun-Times circulation has held steady at about 540,000, and is first in the city itself. The Tribune, despite a drop of 100,000 in the same period, maintains a comfortable overall lead...
...camera should give the world its first live view of a spacecraft blasting off from the moon. By 3:04 p.m., Scott and Irwin should dock with the command module Endeavour (named for the ship used by 18th century English Navigator and Explorer James Cook). That will also reunite them with Worden, who will have conducted more scientific experiments than any other command-module pilot during his three days alone in lunar orbit...
...saplings struggle for survival among the exhaust fumes. Wild animals are nowhere around; the nearest deer are at the local zoo ten miles away and even pets are banned in some parts of the lot. Many campers prefer to eat at the local beaneries, but a few still cook on their own fires with supplies from a local supermarket. "They're really roughing it today," says Supermarket Clerk Vic Gerouche as he bags Styrofoam cups, Tortilla Chips, Rice-A-Roni and four hunks of bubble gum for a camping family...
...monotonously repeated mantra of justification seemingly never changed through the years of escalation. Contrary to his historic image, did he oppose the first loop in the endless spiral into Indochina? In an interview from his home in Athens, Ga., Rusk broke his long silence. He told TIME Correspondent Jess Cook that he had "no present recollection" of the cable, but "I might well have written...
Died. Claire McGill Luce, 47, former publishing executive, and since 1960 wife of TIME Publisher Henry Luce III; of cancer; on Fishers Island, N.Y. At the age of twelve, Mrs. Luce was already hard at work as a cook and cowgirl on her grandfather's Oregon cattle ranch. After joining Time Inc. in 1943, she soon assumed responsibility for managing the company's stock portfolio and various holdings. She left the company in 1948 to join a special U.S. aid mission to China, where she was twice the target of snipers, and returned to Time Inc. eight years...