Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor second to the Washington Post. Content to appeal to the city's upper-crust "cave dwellers" but to few others, the Star came nowhere near matching the Post's broad coverage. This lack showed up in circulation as well as advertising. The once bright Star was fast fading...
...decided to do something about it. In 1963, Newbold Noyes was named editor, with a mandate to spend money on a topnotch staff. As a result, today's Star is again a newspaper worth reading, without sacrificing its urbane, low-keyed style. It manages to keep up with fast-breaking news and avoid the big, overblown headlines and shoddy sensationalism too often endemic to the afternoon. The Star is still the No. 2 paper in Washington, but in almost any other city it would rank...
...fella' to the hundreds he shakes hands with on a fast neighborhood tour. And how about President Johnson's hand flutter to airport crowds and his 'Y'all come...
...pioneer in the office copying field, American Photocopy Equipment Co. was a Wall Street favorite back in the 1950s. Then it faded fast. Trouble was, while the Evanston, Ill., firm had scored its success with machines that turned out wet copies, other companies-notably Xerox-were building huge new markets with "dry" electrostatic copiers requiring no messy chemical developers. APECO tried to do the same, but its first electrostatic machines were plagued by costly production defects. From a 1961 high of $4,925,000, its profits went downhill, and in 1966 the firm finished with a deficit...
...trading volume has been setting new records with regularity in recent years, but nothing so overwhelming as the current surge of trading has ever before hit Wall Street. Caught in a growing backlog of paper work, most brokerage offices have been unable to process and deliver stock certificates as fast as they have been bought and sold. Last week the nation's leading securities markets decided to curtail their hours to enable clerical staffs to catch up, just as they did for nine market days last August...