Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a receding thunderstorm, the echoes of the Zhukov affair grew fainter and fainter. No one seemed to be in any hurry to find a job for Russia's greatest living soldier, and by week's end Pravda was devoting only half a page to denunciations of the marshal's sins. Four and a half years after Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev stood alone and unchallenged...
...story as the newsman's best friend, got their teeth last week into the shaggiest saga of all time. Cracked a city-room wit as Sputnik 11 hove into the headlines: "It's the first time a dog story made eight-column streamers on every front page in the country." The press gave full coverage to the challenging aspects of the Russian feat. But, in a spree of Muttnik jokes and doggerel, wry puns and photographic gags, it also served up laughter to a nation big enough to chuckle over a joke on itself...
...idea in a long, late session a month ago with the city's board of estimates. Scrambling for new revenue, they had just about settled on a sewer tax when someone brought in a copy of the next day's Baltimore Sun. On the back page was a deft cartoon by Staffer Richard Q. Yardley showing the taxpayer apprehensively brushing his teeth while Tax Collector Tommy hovered outside his bathroom. D'Alesandro got the picture. "They'll say Tommy's charging them five cents every time they flush the John!" he bellowed in dismay...
...Internal Revenue Service cast its cold eye on the nation's expense account economy, and millions of U.S. taxpayers felt the chill. Henceforth, the collectors revealed last week, each taxpayer must list on Page One of Form 1040 the amount that his employer paid him for business expenses, and support the figure with a list summarizing total outlays for business meals, travel, entertainment, telephone, etc. If the expenses seem too big for the taxpayer's salary and profession, the auditors can demand a lunch-by-lunch, trip-by-trip account, force the taxpayer to pay income taxes...
Three University professors, among 48 signers of a full page advertisement in Friday's New York Times, have called for immediate cessation of atomic explosions and for United Nations control over outer space...