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...months, the nation's champion newspaper hunter, Samuel I. Newhouse, 67, had stalked the enticing prey. Now it seemed all but in the bag. In Omaha, the World-Herald board of directors, their fears of absentee ownership apparently lulled by Newhouse assurances, accepted his bid of $40,065,780. All that intervened was a meeting of principal stockholders to ratify the board's decision. But last week, at the last moment. Outsider Newhouse lost his Omaha prize to a hometown...
Some Westerners believe that things must be made "easier" for Khrushchev by the West if he is not to fall prey to neo-Stalinist reactionaries. Moscow often seems eager to encourage this view, even though officially it has pronounced Stalinism as dead as Old Joe himself. Since early this year, Poet Evgeny Evtushenko (TIME cover, April 13), most popular spokesman of Russia's restive younger generation, has recited for trusted friends an eloquent, venomous attack on Stalinism that he considered too hot to publish. For a while, the poem circulated through Russia's mysterious poetic underground, until last...
This year coach Buff Donelli's pride is seriously depleted. Last season he had a large group of senior Lions that hunted Ivy prey with great skill. Cubs dominate the current pride, and some of them are apparently still teething...
Because arthritis and rheumatism are painful and crippling and may drag on for a lifetime, despairing victims are easy prey for quacks. They spend an estimated $250 million a year for treatments that are worthless-or, worse, dangerous. Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the importation of one such dangerous "remedy" known as Liefcort, which a maverick Canadian doctor has been making in his basement...
...once that is done, it is relatively easy to cure the child of pica. But if the trouble persists beyond age six, the child usually develops some other form of deviant behavior. Now the Washington researchers are checking to see whether, as they suspect, a pica child becomes easy prey to other addictions later in life, such as compulsive eating, alcoholism or the drug habit...