Word: inking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ink Blot...
...noted some pluses in Nixon's conservative ledger, especially his Supreme Court nominations. But there is disenchantment: "A rush to embrace China without counting the cost to the United States has created too high expectations here. A full-employment-budget type of thinking removes the discipline of red ink and black ink." The political alternatives open to dissident conservatives, according to Buckley: "They can stay home. They will not go out and win new votes through their enthusiasm. This is very important, because it is the conservatives who hustle up the money, who are the shock troops in campaigns...
...payments crisis." Dubious Britons noted that he has just sold his memoirs to the Sunday Times for such poundage that even Timesman reportedly were afraid to admit the price. Insiders guess Wilson's fee is between $576,000 and $624,000-enough to turn all his red ink black...
Uneven Product. Over at Chicago Today, executives are trying to smile through the red ink. Editor-Publisher Lloyd Wendt, 63, who directed Today's transformation into a tabloid in 1969, is convinced that sluggish ad revenues will strengthen rapidly now that his paper has taken the afternoon circulation lead. Chicagoans' ears are numb from repetitive radio spots that trumpet: "Chicago Today! Writing worth reading ... and repeating...
Both Murphys were from wealthy American merchant families: her father sold ink, his owned the luxury leather store Mark Cross. Neither was quite happy in the usual mold of puritanical work and social aggrandizement. Falling in love was a mutual recognition of aim. "I feel as if we had registered at the office of Civilization a claim to a place in the world and that it had been granted," Gerald wrote his fiancee...