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Morrison takes a critical look at many aspects of the Times, but came away impressed by the paper's completeness and ubiquity. Says Morrison with a pinch of hyperbole: "If a tree falls in the forest and there is no New York Times reporter there to record it, the tree never fell. But then there are so many Times reporters around the world that hardly a tree falls that isn't recorded...
...John Schiff, chairman of the investment banking firm of Kuhn Loeb & Co., and Walter Page, president of Morgan Guaranty Trust, finally lopped off the coal business. Then it began considering ways to use the resulting billion-dollar bonanza. The board's conclusions: diversify into another business (possible targets: forest products and oil companies) and invest more in copper properties...
...stairs at $1 each. Some cabbies cruised with their off-duty lights on, trying to negotiate high-priced deals, charging as much as $50 for the trip from Shea Stadium to Manhattan, which normally costs about $10. Cold cans of beer and soda went for $3 in Forest Hills, Queens. An ice-cream vendor in Greenwich Village did a brisk business. As the temperature in his refrigerated case dropped, so did his prices?until he finally gave away free but slightly soggy cones...
...curtsy to the Duke of Devonshire might have been gangly legged and selfconscious, but her tennis was graceful and self-confident. She also had the fire to win. The New Chris Evert met the Old Chris Evert in a third-round match reminiscent of Chris' 1971 Forest Hills debut, at the age of 16, against King. Tracy won the first game from an admittedly nervous Chris ("Now I know how Billie Jean felt"), but Evert quickly settled down and won handily...
...southern Viet Nam, the U Minh Forest, the Central Highlands and the area bordering Cambodia's Parrot's Beak, are proving as inhospitable to Hanoi's troops as they were to America's. Tattered groups of militant Hoa Hao Buddhists, disgruntled peasants and bitter former soldiers of the fallen Thieu regime in Saigon have established strongholds in these areas. Around Dalat, for instance, up to 2,000 veterans sporadically battle the forces of the new rulers. The fighting has been serious enough for circumspect Hanoi newspapers to admit that "veterans do not hesitate to open fire...