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While it is not meant to be a completely objective account, the Autobiography is much more than a partisan diatribe. Written with the cooperation of Alex Haley, the book contains its share of excerpts from Malcolm's speeches and glosses over a few unflattering situations (such as Malcolm's "chickens coming home to roost" statement, which is not even reproduced in its embarrassing entirely), but for the most part it is a surprisingly detached chronicle...
...should have no suspicions of Haley. He was neither a black nationalist (he had written for such "white" periodicals as The Reader's Digest and Playboy) nor what Malcolm called a "house Negro" who identified entirely with his white master. The two men developed a warm personal friendship, and the book benefits from the gifts each man brought...
...members of the British Establishment and upper classes. While its own circulation has slipped 5,624 to 254,377 in the past five years, it has watched its chief competitors in the "quality" press-the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian-gradually win more readers. As Times Editor Sir William Haley, 64, put it in an editorial last week, "Uniqueness is not a virtue if it becomes mere eccentricity. There is no future for any newspaper as a museum piece...
...easy to make the change. The possibility was first discussed in 1964. "The Times is like a club," says Haley. "There is no campaigning or proselytizing for a view, and no violent opposition, either." Timesmen worried about the effect that Page One news would have on readers. After all, they had grown accustomed to opening to the middle of the paper for the news. For months, Timesmen manipulated sheaves of paper in an effort to arrive at the ideal format...
...with a short shot at 3:49 of the first period with B.U. a man short. The lead stood up for about six minutes until B.U.'s Maxwell Gruy stuffed in a rebound of his own shot. B.U.'s second penalty cost them as heavily as the first: Pete Haley broke the tie four seconds after Ed Wright entered...