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...News. Though rising costs, a depressed economy and competition from television for consumer advertising all hurt, Cowles cited a planned second-class postal rate increase as the final crusher that forced him to fold the flagship of Cowles Communications Inc. The proposed new rates would more than double mailing costs for all U.S. magazines, and would have sent Look's postal bill rocketing from $4,000,000 to $10 million in five years. Cowles called the increase "unconscionably high and a complete reversal of U.S. postal policy since the days of Benjamin Franklin, who felt that the cost...
...card at the Garden Saturday night was a classic. For the main event, Bruno Samartino and Chief Jay Strongbow challenged Bepo and Gaeto Mongol for the tag team championship of the world. Crusher Verdue, Gorilla Monsoon, the Black Demon, and Little Brutus headlined the openers...
Although Victor Rivera defeated the despised Castilian Mauler, Crusher Verdue. some fans were unhappy with the decision. "I got no sympathy for the Crusher, but a fast count is a fast count," a Harvard graduate student in English commented...
...This year's Heisman Trophy winner, Owens rewrote the record books with career totals of 3,867 yards rushing and 56 touchdowns-the latter eclipsing the three-year mark of 51 set in 1946 by Army's legendary Glenn Davis. He impressed one scout as "a crusher, with good balance-one of the great competitors of the '60s. He does it all the hard way." Though he lacks the blinding speed of Gale Sayers or O. J. Simpson, Owens is a driving, slashing runner who, as one scout puts it, "can carry the ball 55 times...
...crusher came after a relaxing three days in the wonderful city of San Francisco. Of all the losses, this one hurt the most...