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...titles. The big three -Playboy, Penthouse and Oui-alone sell some 10 million copies a month, double the circulation of the entire skin-magazine industry a decade ago. But profits are chancy, competition for readers is getting hotter, and the magazines are becoming ever more erotic. Last week Eastern Newsstand Corp., a distributor with 105 outlets in New York, Chicago, Cleveland and Atlanta, responded to complaints by displaying skin magazines in plain paper wrappers...
...Step right up . . . if you dare!" reads the blurb on the garishly illustrated cover. "See the werewolf turn into a real flesh-and-blood woman-right before your very eyes." This pitchman's approach, aimed at newsstand buyers of books on the occult, is misleading, for the product, a slim volume entitled The Circus of Dr. Lao, is no tawdry sci-fi thriller. It is instead a blending of the sardonic style of Ambrose Bierce and the homespun hyperbole of Mark Twain...
Sometimes he wanted to write about it. He finally jotted down some notes, but it made him thirsty. On his way to the Square for a drink, he stopped at the newsstand. On the cover of that month's issue of Harper's magazine: Paranoia...
...product line. Anaconda, Kennecott and Phelps Dodge jacked up copper prices by 18%, to 800 per Ib. Chrysler added an average of almost 3% to the price of all its cars and trucks, and Westinghouse raised the price of its light bulbs by 10%. Hedonists will be hurt: the newsstand price of Playboy will go up 25%, to $ 1.25 a copy. The annual "membership fee" charged to holders of American Express credit cards will rise 33%, to $20. On the blue-collar front, 12,000 West Coast members of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union saluted...
...sold newspapers. He took up boxing at Washington's Knights of Columbus gym and the Y.M.C.A. He graduated from Columbia Preparatory School and directly entered George Washington University Law School, "but I couldn't understand anything they were talking about so I quit." He worked at a newsstand for a year, then tried Georgetown University Law School, but the Latin legal terminology threw him, and he once more withdrew to sell newspapers. After his itinerant family returned to the road, Sirica decided that "unless I got an education, this kind of life would stick with me forever...