Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ebony cabinet, in the moldy loft of a barn, in an ancient croquet box. It was the literary find of the century: thousands of Boswell's letters, notes for the Life and drafts of it in his own hand, above all the manuscript of his masterpiece-the voluminous journal he kept for 35 years. Published in seven installments between 1950 and 1963, the Journal (which sold 2,500,000 copies) dramatically transformed the lusty laird of Auchinleck from a minor to a major figure in 18th century letters and at the same time multiplied a thousandfold the known facts...
...study during Christmas vacation, and he knew just how to contact them: he took an ad in Hot Rod magazine. More than 80% of the student body read the message. Whether they turned back to their schoolbooks is another question. After all, Hot Rod is something of a technical journal; reading it requires quite a bit of a guy's time. And because so many readers are anxious to give it their time, Robert Petersen has cannily capitalized on the pattern of its success. He has brought out nearly a dozen similar magazines and has become a millionaire...
...some great secret upheaval going on in Red China? The editorial in the party journal, Red Flag, certainly had a bloodthirsty ring. "A death struggle between the bourgeoisie to restore capitalism and the proletariat" is taking place, warned Red Flag, calling on the people of Red China to guard against a "counterrevolutionary" uprising of the 1956 Hungarian variety. "Failure to take the necessary steps to prevent it would cost the lives of millions of our people...
...entire group went along with the proposal. The only thing of which everyone agreed was their enchantment with typical educational research, the kind that production an article in an obscure journal were, a minor curriculum change in a cool system there...
...Menk says railroads should get out of the railroad business," cried an ad in the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers this week. "Who does he think he is?" Who, indeed, but the president of the 14,000-mile Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. Louis Wilson Menk obviously had more on his mind than his catchy headlines seemed to say. "We're not in the railroad business," continued the ad. "We're in the distribution business. Mere semantics...