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Permissiveness in publishing has come a long way. Today almost every corner newsstand offers as titillating a peep show as the old burlesque houses ever managed-and nobody is there to ring down the curtain. Dozens of "girlie" magazines wink at the casual browser; even at the local bookseller's, the shelves are loaded with books that once had to be bought under the counter in Paris and smuggled past customs...
...Piggyback" Discount. At the big midtown newsstands, dealers are returning twice as many unsold papers as usual, and sales are off 12.5%. The fat Times is faring best, say the dealers, with a dropoff of only 5%-not bad considering the fact that it has doubled its newsstand price to 10?. As for the Herald Tribune, which also hiked its price by a nickel, circulation is off-but just how much will not be known until the Audit Bureau of Circulation releases its next official, semiannual report sometime after Sept. 30. "It has held up better than we anticipated," says...
...this is gone now. The mighty presses are silent. But life must go on. To borrow a newspaperman's phrase, Don't cry over spilt milk, it might have been scotch." And so for the last few months Cantabridgians have their way to the Out of Town newsstand in the Square and there, amidst the fumes of MTA busses, have sought to compensate their gnawing sense of loss...
...purporting to be a police officer ordered a newsstand in the Square to stop selling The Realist magazine Saturday...
Closed & Darkened. The effects of the strike reach far beyond the boundaries of the cities, where closed and darkened newsstands represent the job losses of 22,800 newspaper workers and 1,500 newsstand dealers. The cruise ships that haul sun-seeking tourists to West Indies souvenir shops are having trouble filling their cabins without newspaper advertising. Even airlines feel the pinch, and Northeast Airlines had to cancel its package tours to Florida for lack of customers. In New York itself the strike has also imperiled the jobs of 11,000 workers in the wastepaper industry, who look on the daily...