Word: heraldic
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Victories. Despite the best efforts of the broadcasters-and often of the industry-dominated FCC-the challengers have won several major victories. After a petition by another commercial group, the license for Boston's WHDH-TV was taken away from the company that also owned the Herald Traveler newspaper. As a result, the Herald Traveler, which depended on TV revenues, will cease publication and sell its assets to the Hearst newspaper chain. In an out-of-court settlement, Mexican-American groups engineered some revisions in Time Inc.'s proposed sale of its five TV stations to McGraw-Hill...
...Yonkers Herald Statesman (47,852), long dubbed the "Sterile Hatesman" because of its boring and often narrow-minded tone, quickly got Head's O.K. for a series on Yonkers Mafiosi that the previous managers had prohibited. Heavily Italian Yonkers was outraged, and Herald Statesman Editor Barney Walters had his car windshield smashed eleven times, but the paper was suddenly worth reading again. These days Head's papers even endorse Democrats from time to time, which would have been heresy under the Macys, but individual editors must check with him first. To capture suburban readers on weekends...
...that a multiplicity of trademarks entails, Humble officers last week announced final agreement on a compromise. As of next January, the firm will change its name to Exxon Co., and in July its three gasolines will become Exxon, Exxon Plus and Exxon Extra. A $25 million advertising campaign will herald the name change. Another $100 million will be spent to switch signs at the company's more than 25,000 stations and impart Exxon to its letterheads, gas pumps and trucks...
...added, however, that the Herald-Traveler Corporation would continue to operate radio station WHDH and would change its name to WHDH Corporation...
Clancy did not indicate an exact date for the last edition of the Herald-Traveler. However, other sources have said that the paper will cease publication on June 4. The Herald-Traveler is in its 125th year of publication...