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...mind. For success breeds venality, and many a pub lisher acts on the principle that the small change in piggy banks is just as negotiable as the currency in vaults. That money has recently made publishers more willing to experiment with packaging than with fresh content. Books that float in the tub, or smell of perfume when they are scratched, or assume the shapes of trains, or pop up with paper cutouts, can take the place of stories that children need to frame their perceptions of life. "It is vir tually impossible to earn a living at writ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lively, Profitable World of Kid Lit | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...seekers-will remain the capital's center of leaks and plants. Jack Nelson, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, has been cautious about playing the appointees game, which he believes some of his colleagues have been "writing too hard" and proclaiming as certain. "People have been floating too many rumors; we don't know how accurate they are, and I don't think anyone else does." He has watched the Republican team float names just to see how much opposition they generate. The process has claimed some victims. William Simon thought himself a shoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: A Sinking Feeling About Leaks | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...King's bill simply isn't going to float," State Rep. Michael Barrett '70 said yesterday, maintaining that "King clearly doesn't have the votes...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: King Submits New MBTA Proposal | 12/2/1980 | See Source »

Back in Monterey, residents mounted a parade that surpassed even the festivities for the town's 125th anniversary eight years ago. Included in the procession: the band and drum majorettes from Mount Everett Regional High School, the town's new fire engine and police cruiser and a float featuring a windmill, water wheel and solar panel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Looking Ahead by Cutting Back | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

Clear, sunny skies prevailed till the last float vanished down by the river; feared clouds and rain stayed away all weekend, swelling crowds at all the festivities...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Marks 350th Birthday | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

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