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...unnoticed at first. On the same day, a new jump in second-class postal rates, which affect magazines and newspapers, will take effect. This increment is the first installment of a 40% rise to be spread over the next 28 months. It comes on top of a fiveyear, 145% rate hike begun in 1971. The new increase, being imposed on a compound basis, means that periodicals collectively will have to pay at least 242% more to use the mails in 1976 than they did in 1971.* Some predictions are even grimmer. Richard J. Barber Associates, Inc., an economic counseling firm...
...Buffalo Braves, who lost a lot of games last season (their 21-61 record tied them for the second worst showing in the N.B.A.), felt that DiGregorio could solve their problems too. They signed the playmaker from Providence for a fiveyear, $3,000,000 contract, which amounts to about $500,000 per ft. for the 6-ft. guard. Ernie D.-he was given the nickname by a Providence broadcaster who got tongue-tied describing DiGregorio's fast breaks-was clearly heading for the big time and the big money even before he humbled the Russians. As a college star...
...Times will now undoubtedly strike a more aggressive business posture. Sulzberger says management's first "fiveyear plan" will be presented to the company's board this spring. The Times now owns ten daily or weekly papers in Florida and is looking for ways to acquire more diversified holdings...
...gasped one awed Deputy after Premier Giulio Andreotti, 53, had outlined for the Italian Parliament what he expected from his new government. "That wasn't a program for a beach government. That wasn't even a program for a whole [fiveyear] parliamentary period. That was a program for two Parliaments...
...Ecumenopolis"-a world city formed by overlapping megalopolises. If present trends continue, he says, the world city will be a ghastly, inhuman place. Determined to head off such a bleak future, Doxiadis is trying to shape the growth of today's cities. He has just completed a fiveyear, $3,000,000 study of the 23,059-sq. mi. "Urban Detroit Area," sponsored by the Detroit Edison...