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...general. At the other end of the price scale, the tactics are less subtle. In mid-Manhattan, not far from an A. & P. supermarket where shoppers buy regular-size cigarettes at 39? a pack, conventioneers visiting the Big Town can pay the big price at the New York Hilton newsstand-52? for nonfilter regulars, 53? for other kinds-and get some big lip too. "Because that's what we charge!" jeers the counterman at anyone who questions...
...Nini's newsstand, Felix's, and the Out of Town News Agency, and even in the more insulated confines of the Paperback Booksmith and the Coop, Valley is selling up to 30 copies a day--beating the pants of any other book in Harvard Square. According to one bookseller, "every secretary in Cambridge has slurped up the schmaltz...
...leftists with a passion for disparaging U.S. policies and institutions. The disagreements were largely over money and approach. Keating, the magazine's financial archangel, charged his opponents with "fiscal irresponsibility" and an "inability to practice budgetary controls." Circulation of the last issue was 228,730, more than half newsstand, but the magazine is still losing money at the rate of $350,000 a year. Hinckle believes he can break even by raising another $250,000-and without Keating...
...corner newsstand is doing a nice business with its tropical fruit lifesavers. Banana lifesavers, mango lifesavers, coconut, pineapple, tangerine and orange. An ecstasy of esters. Looking into the newsstand through the large window heaped with apples and oranges, the old man with the dirty magazine is the center of a depraved still life...
Bethell has more up his sleeve than technical tricks. He wants the Bulletin to emphasize more hard news, and he dreams of turning it into newsstand competition for Time and the Atlantic. "Right now Sheldon Cohen hides us, Felix gives us a pretty good display, and Nini's is a barometer--if the issue is exciting there'll be three or four up with clothespins; otherwise you can't find it. I'd like to be exciting more often." Bethell considers the fall's biggest symbolic achievement the 20 inches the UPI wire devoted to extracts from a Bulletin interview...