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...suicide watch" jailer looked in on him round the clock; a single naked light bulb glared endlessly over his cot. He could not tell night from day. He devoured all the newspapers he could get, eagerly sifting every line of print to find his name. He did crossword puzzles and browsed through dozens of books (Perry Mason mysteries, sexy novels, the Warren Report, an abstruse volume of erotica titled Virginity-Pre-Nuptial Rites and Rituals). He played gin rummy indefatigably with his jailers, who claimed he cheated. He did situps, pushups, and stood on his head for exercise. He seemed...
...West, Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, is a name meaningful chiefly to crossword-puzzle addicts and readers of Nietzsche. To the 100,000 Parsis of India who last week celebrated their New Year, the most sacred feast on their calendar, Zoroaster is still the one great prophet, the man who gave them their monotheistic faith in the god Ahura Mazda...
...although to date it has been as bland as another addition, a quasi-gossip column, known as a diary, calculated to offend nobody. Even so, readers have already written anguished letters. The Times reassured them in an editorial: "There were far more vehement fears when the Times started a crossword puzzle. We hope that the Times diary will come to be as eagerly awaited and as highly regarded as the Times crossword...
Newspapers were once content to dig up their own local news and run some wire-service copy on news of the rest of the world. Then they gradually began to import other material: columns, features, crossword puzzles, even editorials from various syndicates. Today they can add luster to their pages with "supplemental" news sent over leased wires by a handful of big metropolitan dailies. By paying anywhere from $50 to $850 a week, depending on their size and location, the papers, in effect, rent a Washington bureau and a string of foreign correspondents that they could not possibly afford...
...perfect thing for kids whose parents go to the game, but who aren't interested in the game themselves," said one girl. "They ought to give them crossword puzzles or something...