Word: ince
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...Apparently not. Dogged by a multistate task force that accuses it of bilking the elderly, American Family Publishers (partly owned by a subsidiary of Time-Warner Inc., parent company of TIME Daily) has agreed to stop telling consumers they are "winners" unless they really are -- and to make it clearer that no purchase is needed to enter the sweepstakes...
When Werner Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg) founded Erhard Seminars Training, Inc. in 1971, the former used-car salesman from Philadelphia had a hook. Born of the theater-of-the-absurd atmosphere of the late 1960s, est (Latin for "it is") promised to help people get "it," whatever "it" was. Erhard's 60-hour seminars were strenuous ordeals, complete with "body catchers" and barf bags for the weak of mind and stomach. Trainers applauded bladder control and cursed those who didn't get it. Still, Erhard and his message proved popular, even winning celebrity advocates. Then, after two decades...
...cinema world there came the announcement, last week, that henceforth William Fox, head of Fox Film Corp., would produce only talking pictures. Inasmuch as Talker Fox, through his recent acquisition of Loew's, Inc., had become possibly Greatest Film Man (succeeding Adolph Zukor, head of Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky Corp.) his announcement was widely interpreted as "dooming" the silent picture. Furthermore, as Mr. Fox also announced that he had secured the services of some 200 "legitimate" actors, stage-directors, dialog writers and dramatists, singers, dancers and musical comedy producers and composers, it was also felt that the entire theatrical world...
...write our stories, then work with the checkers to get it all right. Chambers would just close his door and, ignoring the research, write stories based on his own knowledge of Communist corruption and duplicity. In the end, of course, he was right; but he wasn't practicing Time Inc. journalism, and many on the staff resented...
INDICTED. THE REV. HENRY LYONS, 56, president-shepherd of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A. Inc.; on charges of racketeering and theft; in St. Petersburg...