Word: paper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic and industrial activities, nationalization of all banks, insurance companies, electric power corporations, and communications companies as well as a far-reaching agrarian reform law that would do away with all large landowners. Embarrassed by the report, Frei tried to shrug it off casually as a meaningless "scrap of paper...
...there was any trait the old London Times carried to excess, it was diffidence. The paper never talked about itself and did not even give its correspondents bylines. Last week the new Times showed once again how much it has changed by running a four-page spread in the Sunday Times magazine boasting of its achievements in the year since it was bought by Lord Thomson of Fleet. Complete with drawings of Thomson, his editor and the paper's heroes, the article told how the "most dignified newspaper in the world hustled its way to being the most talked...
...Times also ran a picture of Pammie Phillips, a typical housewife. "It took Pammie Phillips," said the paper, "eight days to learn she was a Times reader. She had her first real chance to read the Times while her son Sammy was occupied discovering how to put sand in his navel." Next year, presumably, it'll be Sammy's turn to be a Times reader...
...papers are not content with merely covering the news. They sponsor a host of outside activities, from art shows to concerts to baseball games. Nearly every paper employs staffers for special projects; Yomiuri has 150, double the number of its foreign news staff. Yomiuri owns a symphony orchestra and professional baseball team, the Tokyo Giants, as well as a kind of Disneyland East, called Yomiuriland...
...side activities began with Yomiuri, in fact, after the paper's president, Matsutaro Shoriki, decided to bring Babe Ruth and other baseball stars to Japan for a tour in 1934. The tour was a hit and raised the paper's circulation by 50,000, though Shoriki was stabbed by an ultranationalist who took offense when the Americans played ball on the grounds of a Shinto shrine. Last October Shoriki, now 83, staged an exhibit of Tibetan art treasures and invited the Dalai Lama to attend. When he arrived, Red China got so angry at this "sinister activity" that...