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...closed the biggest deal in U.S. journalistic history. For $42 million?more than three times what the Louisiana Territory cost the U.S. in 1803?Newhouse bought both of New Orleans' papers: the morning Times-Picayune (circ. 195,151 daily, 307,-983 Sunday) and its evening companion, the States-Item...
Last week the irksome competition of the teachers' union was the hottest item on the agenda at the annual N.E.A. convention in Denver. Charged Executive Secretary William G. Carr: "Forces of significant scope and power are considering measures which could destroy the association." Carr was alluding to Big Labor money, which now has entered the fray. A half-million dollars from the Auto Workers and other unions went into the organization campaign among the New York teachers, he claimed, arguing that labor is now trying to make up for declining blue-collar membership by taking in white-collar teachers...
G.I.s learned about Meissen when it was a major barter item on the German black market immediately after the war and transmitted a taste for it (as well as whole cases of it) to their families back home. Recently sales of new Meissen to the U.S. and other Western countries have slackened. Hemmed in by Communist artistic canons, the company has failed to turn out successful modern designs, instead relies on old patterns which contemporary Westerners find too rococo...
...bygone days in Merry England, no one thought twice about seeing ghosts; they were as common a household item as chairs and tables. Today an estimated one out of every five English men and women still sees ghosts or experiences "psychic phenomena," but in keeping with the times scrutinizes them scientifically. Researcher Eric Dingwall analyzes some classic ghosts and ghost see-ers with the latest tools of his trade, including psychiatry and statistical research. Most famous is the 19th century Scotsman Daniel Dunglas Home, who set up a salon in Paris where he produced table rappings, voices, visions, and even...
...continue. The rest of Milty's specialties are unique in the area: item, the Fresser's Special (55 cents) of corned beef, pastrami and salami on a roll; item, a 50 cent Yagdwurst (which means Polish pressed ham sandwich; item, and one in which Milty takes particular pride, the only French fried onion rings in Harvard (25 cents...