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...largest in the group is TIME Canada, which sells 350,000 copies a week, an increase of 75% in the last decade. Printed in Montreal, it offers the full editorial content of TIME U.S., plus four pages of Canadian news written and edited by a Canadian staff. Our other international editions, each with its own regional advertising areas, are: Atlantic, printed in Paris; Latin America, printed in Atlanta but soon to move to Panama; Asia, in Tokyo; South Pacific, in Melbourne and Auckland. They are produced with foreign ads by photographing the text of the U.S. edition and flying...
...knew elegance of diction wasn't my long suit; it was having something to say and saying it with all the punch you could put into it," he remarked in 1925. As a founding member of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, now the nation's third largest advertising agency ($294.6 million in 1966 billings) after J. Walter Thompson and Young & Rubicam, he said his piece with punch for such corporations as U.S. Steel and General Electric. In the process, he set a Madison Avenue fashion for spare and peppy prose. For Forest Lawn cemetery, he invented the phrase FIRST...
Even as the largest nation on a highly volatile continent, Nigeria has had more than its share of bloodshed in the past few years. When Eastern Nigeria decreed itself a separate nation six weeks ago, most of Nigeria's 57 million people waited with apprehension for another round in the bloodletting. Last week it began. "War, as everybody knows, is a necessary evil," proclaimed a Nigerian government newspaper, the Morning Post, in its "Teachings of Islam" column. Thus, with resignation, federal government forces led by Major General Yakubu Gowon, 32, rolled out of the lush green hills...
...white Syrians or grape-black Sudanese. They include dollar-dizzy Kuwaiti, secretive Druzes, Gallicized Algerians and Christian Copts. Only about 10% are nomads, while most live in villages and cities (some very big: Baghdad, 2,200,000; Cairo, 4,200,000). Egypt is the Arab "capital," which fielded the largest army against Israel. But Egyptians were not originally Arabs, although they are now so considered. They come of Hamitic stock, a submissive people widely weakened by disease and the Nile climate, who have rarely in history won a war. The Saudis, among the purest Arabs, are also among the best...
...resources to back up the new product. Founder of a successful Manhattan public relations firm still bearing his name, Relin took the reins of Blair Holdings Corp. ten years ago. While the company went through several name changes, Relin quietly built it into the world's largest independent Pepsi-Cola bottler and bought out two New York breweries, Liebmann (maker of Rheingold beer) and Jacob Ruppert. The company has used its acquisitions to increase sales from $26 million in 1962 to $187 million last year...