Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Circulation is also rising. A total of 43,696 books went out of Lamont overnight or longer in October, 1961; this year circulation jumped ten per cent to 47,672. Moreover, since renewals are no longer counted this year, the actual difference is even larger than the statistics would indicate, James suggests...
Snowplows in the Sun. Considering the chaotic state of Guinea's economy, the price is cheap. Unschooled in modern economics, Touré sought overnight industrialization, instead got overnight bankruptcy. Though he had $92 million in Soviet-bloc credits and the help of 1,200 Red advisers, they were totally unfamiliar with Africa and proved to be of little help. On Conakry's docks, Soviet snowplows still glint in the savage tropical sun, monumental reminders of Red ineptitude...
...snare Augstein-although his home was combed and all suspect material, including an unpublished theme that Augstein had written as a student, was impounded. When Augstein learned of the raids, he delivered himself into police custody, with impressive insouciance: his liveried chauffeur, toting a well-stocked overnight bag, followed him through the station door...
...planes on the ground. Finally, on Sunday, Oct. 14, Navy fighter pilots collected the clinching evidence. Flying as low as 200 ft., they made a series of passes over Cuba with their cameras whirring furiously. They returned with thousands of pictures-and the photographs showed that Cuba, almost overnight, had been transformed into a bristling missile base...
Everyone can also be a worrier, for insecurity is the rule. The admen live in a world where the stealing of accounts and executives is a way of life, and where a client's hunch or whim may erase a score of jobs overnight. On average, the U.S. adman changes his job once every three years during his 30s and once every four years during his 40s-a far swifter turnover than in corporate life as a whole...