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...newspaper war in Detroit may be the nation's hardest fought, and it is almost certainly the costliest. Detroit is the nation's fifth largest metropolitan area (pop. 4.4 million); its News and Free Press are the ninth and tenth largest U.S. dailies. The owners of the morning Free Press (circ. 632,000) acknowledge that the paper lost $9 million last year. They assert that the all-day competitor, the News (circ. 643,000), lost twice that much in 1982, even though it has a solid 60%-to-40% lead in advertising linage, largely because the News offers...
...Massachusetts featured Michael Dukakis against Edward King. In both elections the incumbent lost. But four years ago, it was Challenger King who upset Governor Dukakis, while last week the deposed Dukakis, 48, won the nomination away from Governor King, 54% to 46%. It was also the state's costliest campaign ever: Dukakis spent $2 million, King $3 million. Dukakis' Republican opponent in November, also nominated last week, will be John Winthrop Sears, 51, a well-to-do Boston city councilman and quintessential Yankee...
John D. Rockefeller's best-known son was Nelson-four-time Governor of New York, a man of great energy and stamina who harvested Venezuelan chili peppers with the same zest that he collected modern art. Rockefeller owned some of the world's costliest real estate, but for all his wealth and organization he could not sign a lease on the property he wanted most, the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He had to settle for an appointment as Vice President in the Ford Administration, where he glumly complained, "I go to funerals. I go to earthquakes...
They were two of the biggest, most complex and costliest corporate legal actions ever brought by the U.S. Government. Rightly or wrongly, they came to symbolize the relentless meddling that businessmen everywhere had learned to fear most from Washington. Then last week, after years of litigation and without any fanfare or warning, the twin legal dramas came suddenly...
...than 5000 votes in her run for school committee two years ago won 1286 votes yesterday, followed by first-time candidate Mary Allen Wilkes, who won 1261 votes with a campaign aimed at condominium owners, and Wendy Abt, who received only 1024 votes despite one of the city's costliest and most intense campaigns...