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Then, after arranging to continue the supply of copies of TIME for the U.S. Embassy staff in Prague, TLJ waited to see what would happen to the newsstand copies of TIME'S March 1st and 8th issues, carrying accounts of the Communist coup, and the March 15th issue of LIFE International, which had a story on Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University. Word came on March 8 that TIME was banned for keeps from Czechoslovakian newsstands and that LIFE would henceforth be censored for "antiCommunist" content...
Only Graduates buy New York, newspaper PM and their newsstand provides an outlet for a substantial percentage on left-wing periodicals sold...
According to Don E. McNicol '48,3L who is in charge of the Union newsstand, last year's large and polyglot Freshman Class, made up largely of war veterans was no different in this respect, than this year's Class...
...maintain its distribution of TIME overseas, TLI has to deal with 85 different political entities, each with its own currency and currency problems. So far, TLI has had to establish 24 basic subscription prices in local currencies and 60 different newsstand rates. In several countries yearly subscription prices must equal or exceed the total of 52 newsstand copies. In Norway, all subscriptions must be entered through agents; in Finland, through the post office. In New Zealand, no new subscriptions at all may be solicited. In China, because of currency fluctuations, newsstand prices are subject to change weekly...
Thanks to the cooperation of the governments concerned, means have Ween found to overcome many of our foreign exchange problems. Until last spring, for instance, Italians could buy TIME on the basis of the French franc (i.e., Italian subscribers and newsstand buyers paid for TIME in lira, which were exchanged for francs and remitted to our Paris office). This worked well until the Italian Government, by importing more from France than it exported, ran out of francs and TIME could no longer clear its Italian lira remittances. At that juncture the Government, expressing its desire to continue having TIME & LIFE...