Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon editions. Only two dozen of the nation's 1,753 dailies publish all day, and most are in relatively small, one-paper cities. But in the past couple of years some big-city afternoon papers have added morning editions: the Detroit News (circ. 634,000), Dallas Times Herald (251,000), and Oakland Tribune (164,000). Other papers are considering the move, among them the financially beset Washington Star (329,000), which has renegotiated its union contracts as part of a long-term campaign for revival (see following story...
...years, however, city P.M.s have been generally losing circulation while many A.M.s have been gaining. Publishers attribute this attrition to the scourges of the afternoon: heightened competition from television news and suburban dailies, traffic jams that make midday delivery difficult, and readers' morning habits. Says Dallas Times Herald Publisher Lee Guittar: "People are acclimated to having their newspaper with their morning coffee...
...herald the new year-and a new era, beginning Jan. 1 with ceremonies launching normalization of relations with the U.S.-China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing moved swiftly last week to consolidate his political gains and to accelerate the nation's New Long March to modernization. In a skillful move that further strengthened his hold on the highest level of government, Teng packed the 23-member ruling Politburo with four of his loyal supporters. Foremost among the new members is Teng Ying-ch'ao, 74, the widow of Chou Enlai, Teng's longtime...
Gandhi was clearly looking forward to her brief confinement, which is due to end when the legislature recesses, possibly this week. Before she checked into prison, the National Herald, mouthpiece of her Congress-Indira Party (Congress I), published a special edition whose black-bordered front page carried a faked photograph of her smiling beatifically from behind bars. Thousands of pro-Indira protesters poured into the streets of Indian cities setting fire to buses and buildings and hanging Prime Minister Morarji Desai in effigy; at least 15 people died and Gandhi's followers claimed that 32,000 demonstrators were arrested...
Many of the old graduates were also happy to have the friendly German on hand. The entire tenth reunion class, according to the Herald, the Class of 1924, showed up dressed in Bavarian costume, right down to the Tyrolean hats. The Boston Herald reported that "because the doctor had traveled 3,000 miles there was a Harvard version of the goose step, executed with as much snap as unsteady feet could muster ....An Americanized approximation of the Nazi salute replaced the hand shake...