Word: publishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wide to explain his methods. He has helped Puerto Rican youngsters in New York City to found the Fourth Street i, which records the street games, block news and recipes of the Lower East Side. He has encouraged Oglala Sioux children in Pine Ridge, S. Dak., to publish Hoyekiya (Sioux for "to find a voice"), which has printed stories on tribal culture, including the sun dance, herbal medicine and the tipsinna, an edible wild turnip...
...Real Paper expects to sell another 10,000 copies on the new stands this week. If they do, they may outsell BAD--which usually sells only 20,000 per week--in addition to making $1500 in clear profit, almost enough to publish another edition the size of yesterday's paper
...seven years -from 1955 to 1962-to finish the New Testament Epistles, working nightly in one of the farmhouse's bedrooms and in the mornings on the commuter train to Chicago. Living Letters, he called them. But even the very firm he directed, Moody Press, declined to publish his paraphrases. So Taylor decided to publish them privately. A printer friend ran off 2,000 copies on credit, and Taylor took some of them to the 1962 Christian Booksellers Convention. He sold 842 copies-but there were no reorders for four months. "Then they started coming in," he recalls...
...Denenberg's most famous actions was to publish "shopper's guides" showing comparative costs of life and auto insurance policies. The life-policy version (see box) revealed great price variations for roughly the same kinds of coverage. Policy buyers and other state insurance commissioners have sent for more than 50,000 copies of the free guides, and publishers are retailing copies...
Pell-Mell Rush. The increasing number of scientists involved in research projects has helped to ensure a hot, often ungentlemanly competition for the Nobel Prize and the other honors that follow in its wake. This is apparent in the pell-mell rush to publish results of experiments-some of them later proved faulty-in scientific journals just to establish priority of discovery. In his unusually candid book The Double Helix, Nobel Prizewinner James Watson confessed to another questionable practice. Determined to unravel the complex structure of the DNA molecule before Caltech's famed chemist Linus Pauling...