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...summers ago I was in a small town in France, and not particularly happy about being there. In fact, I was miserable: bored, facing a six hour train trip, and tired of trying to struggle through French novels. The few books in English at the railway station newsstand were all mysteries. I had always been very disdainful of mysteries...
...posters--slightly censored reproductions of the banned "Two Virgins" album cover--were sold for $2 each from a panel truck parked next to Nini's newsstand. A loud-speaker on the truck blared snatches of old Beatles songs to attract passers...
...secretary from the Women's Auxiliary of Congregation Emanu-El picks up copies of the magazine each week at the ground-floor newsstand of the Time & Life Building in midtown Manhattan. The copies are rushed to the temple's offices on upper Fifth Avenue, where women volunteers begin the task of transcribing TIME'S text into sound. Starting with this page, the women record the entire contents, including descriptions of charts, onto disks-a task involving eight hours of reading the magazine's nearly 60,000 editorial words...
...contains 136 pages, with 64 pages of advertising, including the much-prized Fifth Avenue retailers. After an inventive promotion campaign offering winners such awards as a dinner with Mayor Lindsay or a personal bench in Central Park, an encouraging 60,000 people have subscribed. Editor Clay Felker hopes that newsstand sales will boost circulation to more than...
Trying to recoup, Ramparts is announcing its determination to shake off the yoke of advertising. From now on, it says, readers will have to assume cost of publication. Newsstand price will increase from 750 to $1, a year's subscription from...