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When the New York Herald Tribune raised the price of its Sunday paper to 15? ten months ago, the New York Times doggedly stuck to a dime. This week, the Times lost the fight to rising paper and production costs. It reluctantly raised its newsstand price...
...book, "nefarious forces" (see above) included the non-Government press. The right-wing Provincias Unidas had already been closed; the Communist Hora was barred from the mails. Passengers on incoming planes were being relieved of their copies of TIME, LIFE and the Saturday Evening Post. Newsstand shipments of TIME were getting "lost" in the Argentine customs. Last week the 52-year-old Socialist bi-weekly Vanguardia, outspokenly anti-Perón, was hit hard; the Buenos Aires municipal government shut down its printing plant. The deadpan reason: its newsprint rolls, unloaded on the sidewalk, obstructed traffic...
...Harvardman, Navy veteran and father of two, was divorced last month. "He is interested," said Editor Mullen, "in doing something constructive about family life." Speaking for himself, Field said: "I'm interested in American Family primarily as an experiment. It's an attempt to get away from newsstand sales. Ultimately I hope to get Pocket Books [another Field enterprise] into grocery stores." Meanwhile he was keeping his job as an editorial writer on the Chicago...
...India, where Baker spent three months and traveled 15,000 miles by air, dockside strikes and irregular mail delivery from TIME's branch printing plant in Cairo had accumulated quantities of unsold newsstand copies of TIME. They were stacked in a warehouse in the Moslem section of Calcutta and TLI's distributor, a Hindu like most Indian businessmen, did not dare try to recover them. Baker located a bearer who was a Christian and helped load the back copies of TIME into a truck himself. Later, the bearer, "a likeable, inoffensive little chap," was kidnapped by a band...
...Bill") Pollard-who seem to create their special brand of jived-up patter and song by spontaneous combustion, were cooking on all burners in a Manhattan basement nightclub, the Village Vanguard. Backed by some solid piano and rhythm, the Flames ("How hot can you get?") are now setting a newsstand to music ("I read Esquire for fashion, Police Gazette for passion"). In two hours they turned out a tune that New York City's Department of Health used as a singing commercial during last spring's smallpox scare...