Word: lopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merger between the Hearst and Scripps-Howard afternoon papers, may be scheduled for demolition. If that happens, the Examiner will probably switch to afternoon publication. Hearst executives deny the rumors, but since William Randolph Hearst's death in 1951, they have never hesitated to lop off deadwood, so far have killed seven of the chain's 19 newspapers.* In the meantime, the Examiner faces the prospect of chasing the fast-stepping Chronicle. "We shouldn't be fighting against the Chronicle," says Columnist Hall. "Sensationalism is not the answer. We don't have a boob audience...
...mile auto journey from Paris to Milan. Plans are also afoot for a joint Anglo-French tunnel under the English Channel. Last week the tunnel trend continued as France and Spain announced plans to pierce the Pyrenees. Just under two miles long, the proposed tunnel (see map) will lop off 145 miles from the present 385-mile road trip from Toulouse to Saragossa. Construction is scheduled to begin early next year, will take two years. Estimated cost: $28.5 million, of which France will ante up 60%, Spain...
...poor boy, a benevolent employer, whose aim was a better life for the masses. After three years of appeals, Matsushita's name was finally taken off the purge list and his company spared the enforced "deconcentration" that hit other giant firms. Still, the hard times forced him to lop off 30 subsidiaries and reduce his staff to 3,800. Says he: "I never felt so sad about anything in my life." The New Freedom. Once he could operate freely in a civilian economy, however, Matsushita was in his element. He pioneered easy-payment plans, became Japan's biggest...
...before the war in an all-out effort for intellectual progress. "Afterward," Bender points out, "they found out that the intellectuals, in quotes, were not really as smart as they thought and that the non-intellectuals, in quotes, were really quite valuable after all." Their experiment resulted in a lop-sided student body of "narrow intellectuals," and the school's appeal declined so much that five years ago the administration had trouble finding enough students to fill its quotas...
Cornell is 2-0 in Ivy play this year, with lop-aided wins over Yale and Penn. Last Saturday coach Jim Miller's crew overcame a 12-3 deficit to stun Syracuse 15-12. They are odds-on favorites to repeat as Ivy king-pins...