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...large one. To accomplish such an elaborate task, TV-CABLE WEEK will rely on computers. Time Inc. executives estimated that start-up and development costs could total $100 million over a four-or five-year period. That would be an unprecedented magazine investment, but, Time Inc. President J. Richard Munro explained, "TV-CABLE WEEK has the potential of becoming our largest magazine both in terms of subscribers and of revenue." Time Inc. is the country's biggest magazine publisher; its current largest publication, TIME, last year had a circulation of 5.7 million and revenues of $340.8 million
...were they mass-produced. Coach Bruce Munro purchased the sticks from Bachrach-Raisin on the squad's annual pre-season trip to Baltimore. Bachrach-Raisin's exclusive source was an Indian tribe on an island in Canada, which maintained a corner on the American market in men's lacrosse sticks until the plastic version became preferred in recent years...
...coaches did not recruit heavily for promising freshmen. Harvard coach Bruce Munro, Gunnoe recalls, "didn't recruit in any way, shape of fashion." Instead it was Associate Dean Burris Young, then an English teacher at St. Paul's who encouraged Gunnoe to apply. Ironically, Gunnoe lived in Mass Hall his first year, a members of the last class of freshman to live there before Young took up his ongoing residence there...
Taipei scornfully dismissed the Chinese offer as propaganda. "The only way to bring about national reunification is to abandon the Communist system," declared James Soong, a spokesman for the Nationalist government. He told TIME Correspondent Ross H. Munro: "We will not negotiate with Communist China, period!" Soong ridiculed Peking's assurances that it would not interfere in Taiwan's local affairs after reunification. "They will become the central government, and we will become the local government. Have you ever heard of a central government that doesn't interfere in local affairs?" Asked how native-born Taiwanese would...
...This time he would live his life the right way or he would end it." On the foggy dawn of Nov. 14, 1916, near Beaumont-Hamel, he was shot by a German sniper. During a brief pause in an advance one of his men had lit up, and Corporal Munro had just yelled, "Put that bloody cigarette...