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...change would give the Mirror a chance at some of this revenue. "When we make the changeover," says Owner Chandler, "we anticipate our losses will be cut from between $6,000 to $8,000 a week." Publisher Pinkley hopes that the new full-size Mirror will hit the 300,-ooo reader mark. Says he: "I doubt that any metropolitan newspaper can make money with less than a 300,000 to 325,-ooo circulation...
...recorded births are to parents who already have three children (compared to 21% in the U.S.), so it is these parents whose "improvident maternity" worries the census taker. To Gopalaswami the answer is obvious: contraception, for which the Indian government has already set aside a sum of 6,500,-ooo rupees ($1,365,000) in research money. "We must consider it as a fortunate circumstance," said Gopalaswami, "that the religious faith of most of our people* is not bound up with taboos against it." With every Indian family restricting itself to a maximum of three little Indians, the census chief...
...exchange, on a value-for-value basis, the government shares given them when the company was nationalized. The company, capitalized at ?16 million when nationalized, is capitalized at ?30 million ($84 million) in the stock sale. About one-third of its ownership is represented by this issue, 10,194,-ooo shares priced at 25 shillings...
...Leningrad and Stalin his Stalingrad. Last week Karl Marx got his grad, with a German accent. To celebrate the 135th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, East Germany's Red rulers bestowed a dubious blessing on the smoke-begrimed industrial city of Chemnitz (pop. 550,-ooo), admitting as they did so that there was "great opposition." Henceforth, 800-year-old Chemnitz would be known as Karl-Marx-Stadt...
...Snows of Kilimanjaro ($6,500,-ooo...