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Judged by the record, the odds against a newborn daily newspaper's surviving infancy are astronomical. In Phoenix, Ariz., those long odds overtook the nation's youngest metropolitan daily, the Arizona Journal. Scant weeks short of its first birthday, the Journal found itself out of print, out of money, heavily in debt, and laid out for burial. About all that kept the infant paper out of the grave was a flicker of outside interest...
Scant hours after Reston's message went out from New York, prudence overtook the management of the Times. Fearing to upset Bert Powers and his printers at a time when it might still be possible to settle with them, the Times sent out a mandatory order to kill the column. A few papers, such as the Houston Chronicle, had already gone to press with it. The Kansas City Star protested the kill order, but the Times's own outposts printed nary a word. And Scotty Reston. who never before had a column suppressed by the paper...
Caught by the Century. Founded by Yankee missionaries and traders in the mid-19th century, the Big Five long turned fat profits with their sugar and pineapple plantations, dominated the economic growth of the islands through intermarriages and interlocking directorates. But with World War II, the 20th century overtook the Big Five with some chilling effects. The unshakable grip that the International Longshoremen's Union won over the islands' agricultural workers forced wages in the pineapple fields up to an average of $1.78 an hour at the very time when low-wage countries, such as Formosa and Malaya...
Staying Put. Surveys show that most oldsters (90%) stay put in the town where they have always lived before retirement overtook them. But few any longer live with their children. This traditional solution is packed with hazard in contemporary America. The young people's sense of their right to live their own lives conflicts with the Biblical injunction to "honor thy father and thy mother." The old folks' conviction that "I don't want to be a burden" conflicts with "after all I've done for them, they...
Quickly he overtook three undergraduates on the path in front of University Hall, and putting on his best Harvard manner, said...