Word: digestibility
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...short of the planned 300,000. A promotion campaign dubbing it The Earth Diary seemed a futile echo of the '60s. Last week, after losing about $30 million-plus three publishers and three managing editors-Gruner & Jahr sold their ad-starved, troubled magazine to Knapp Communications (Architectural Digest, Bon Appetit). In exchange, Gruner & Jahr promised to help test-market Knapp's other magazines in Europe. Predicts President Cleon Knapp, who quickly named former New West Executive T. Swift Lockhard as Geo's fifth publisher: "We're not going to report on the sordid part...
...catalogue. The catalogue is a little like the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon--too much of a good thing. Last year's edition--the 1981-82 version will not be released until September 8--ran an imposing 796 pages, far more than even the most dedicated of scholars can digest in the days before they must select their courses. The catalogue actually shows Harvard at its best; bureaucratic frustrations, inaccessible professors, and cranky students are nowhere to be seen. Harvard can be the best place in the world to study, and the course catalogue shows...
...knows O'Connor well, argued that the judge "is unqualified because she's proabortion. We're going to fight this one on the beaches." Also leading the charge from the right were Howard Phillips, head of the Conservative Caucus, and Richard Viguerie, publisher of Conservative Digest. Declared Viguerie: "We've been challenged. The White House has said we're a paper tiger. They've left us no choice but to fight...
...Pont will have to borrow $3 billion to finance the purchase, which would more than double its debt load, and some observers think that Conoco might be too much to digest. Du Pont has a reputation for being a tightly run company that frequently shifts managers between product lines to give them broader experience. Asserts Thorn Brown, an analyst with the investment firm of Butcher & Singer: "There's no easy way to integrate Conoco into the Du Pont operation...
Abbott's tireless defiance is informed by a unique education. A sixth-grade dropout, he began reading seriously during some three years of solitary in a Utah prison. He consumed-but did not wholly digest-Hegel and Marx, Kierkegaard and Camus, mathematics and physics...