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Whatever the outcome of the suit, the number of jets in service each year just keeps increasing. The margin of safety needs to be maintained or the risk of fatal errors may go up. Filling out the cards correctly will be more important than ever...
...writer I know - a very funny man, when uncoerced - resigned abruptly, in the middle of the night, from the staff of TIME the weekly newsmagazine. His reason: An editor had written in the margin of his story, "INSERT SOMETHING FUNNY HERE...
...editors on the calf. Bill Clinton, though brilliantly seductive as a communicator, comes as an amateur to the business of memoir-writing. How difficult will Clinton be to handle? I don't know. And who will be handling whom? Gottlieb is smart enough to refrain from writing in the margin, "INSERT SEXUAL NITTY-GRITTY HERE." Gottlieb's problem will be to get the boy from Hope to be honest in more important ways...
...Though she sympathizes with the publishers? interest in maintaining a profit margin, she says "the libraries are concerned because they pay lots of money for these materials, for the right to let people access them. We?re certainly not trying to give people access they shouldn?t have...
...Every big city had a favorite Top 40 station, but Wibbage was huge. Before switching formats, it had been the sixth-rated Philadelphia station; after, it was first, by a huge margin. In the only ratings survey I can find, for the summer of 1961, WIBG corraled a monstrous 33.3 percent of the listening audience, three times the share of its closest competitor. (In the glory days of AM radio, all FM stations together cadged only about 6 percent.) And if your mind isn't boggled yet, consider this stat, from the Philadelphia Music Alliance...