Word: printings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...internal"settlement seems more settled Beneath a watercolor print of Rhodesia's founder, Cecil Rhodes, that had been borrowed for the occasion, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and three moderate black leaders last week signed a document that was billed as the first formal step toward black majority rule for their country. Three months after he first sat down to negotiate with Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau, Smith had apparently achieved the "internal" settlement he had been seeking...
...largest academic press in the world, Oxford has 3,000 staffers working in Britain and in 23 overseas branches from New York to Nigeria. It sells some $88 million each year of scholarly treatises, textbooks, reference works, sheet music and Bibles, and its gargantuan list of books in print encompasses 17,000 titles...
...audience-primarily theologians. Only 500 copies were run off, and the last did not sell until 1907, a patient 191 years later. Then there was Muller's Certain Variations in the Vocal Organs of the Passeres that have Hitherto Escaped Notice, which Charles Darwin persuaded the press to print in 1878. Fortunately, Darwin was not a publishing executive. In 25 years only 21 volumes were sold...
...York Times Syndication Sales Corp. were trying to renegotiate-or back out of-their agreements. They argued that 1) the Post's story on Haldeman's book had turned their expensive excerpts into damaged goods, 2) the Times had damaged them further by rushing into print after the Post's scoop, and 3) the New York Times Co. had failed to provide adequate security against premature disclosure...
...That's absolute rubbish," retorted Times Co. Executive Vice President Sydney Gruson. "What the Post did was an act of boyish spite, not serious journalism." Indeed, though any newspaper has a First Amendment right to print pretty much what it pleases, most libertarians would probably have been happier had the Post reserved that defense for a more important case. Ends is hardly the Pentagon papers. Those damning Government documents might have remained a secret for decades had not the Times printed them. Ends was merely brought out a few days in advance, which may be enterprising journalism, but hardly...