Word: home-town
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Harvard finally cooled and Edmonds gave the home-town fans a little good news, bad news. The 6 ft.-9 in. Edmonds gave the Dartmouth crowd the good news first. He hit eight of the Green's first 12 points in its short-lived rally...
...trend is accelerating: chains now control 71% of the nation's daily circulation, and it looks as if most dailies will be in the hands of a dozen giant publishers by the end of the century. Arizona Congressman Mo Udall, whose home-town paper in Tucson was sold to a chain last year, wants the Government to give local owners special tax breaks and begin a three-year study of the effects of concentrated ownership. This seems a very bad idea to Allen Neuharth, the head of the Gannett chain, which bought the Tucson paper and owns more dailies...
Cowen likes the home-town crowd and the hometown cooking. But now he'd like some wins, home or away, more than anything else...
...first flush of his success, Elvis lived with the crazy vigor of a good ole boy who just had the whole world tucked snugly into the back pocket of his overalls. He surrounded himself with home-town cronies, kept them fed and cared for, dispensed lavish gifts. He gave away luxury cars-particularly the Cadillacs he doted on-like gumdrops. After a while, though, the cronies became heavies-bodyguards, procurers-and the gifts bribes to buy loyalty, or silence. He courted a girl, Priscilla Beaulieu, he had met during his Army hitch. He persuaded her father to let her come...
...Times, of course, is not just another home-town daily, a genre that has long understood its local service? magazine functions. Though pressed by the Washington Post, the Times remains the best newspaper in the U.S. It is the platinum bar by which editors across the country measure their own papers. Except for the heavily financial Wall Street Journal (circ 1,465,000), the Times is the closest approximation in the U.S. to a national newspaper. Fully one-quarter of its readers live more than 100 miles from New York City. (One such subscriber is Jimmy