Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover story this week is about America's greatest newspaper, the venerable New York Times, and how it has come to flourish anew under its fourth publisher, Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger. Many of the interviews were done by Reporter-Researcher Regina Cahill, and Associate Editor Donald Morrison, who has been running our Press section for three years, wrote the story...
When he is in town, Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, 51, publisher of the Times, chairman and president of its parent company, usually takes the news lying down. On an orthopedic mattress, the hazel-eyed, faintly balding, perpetually smiling publisher literally tears into his custom-delivered Times...
...here today, ha ha!") and on to the financial tables ("Super! Our stock's up!"). Now backward toward the front page again, ripping out headlines, paragraphs and whole stories that either please or peeve him, depositing the clippings on his night table for future action. Exhausted, Punch the Ripper flings the eviscerated carcass to the floor. And as the clock strikes 12, he sinks into the sweet sleep of a man who knows, as his paper's motto has it, all the news that 's fit to print...
While Dryfoos grappled with these problems, Arthur Sulzberger's only son was marking time in a succession of minor posts in Times Co. management. Punch Sulzberger was an amiable presence around the building, though when he attended an occasional story conference he sometimes seemed more interested in examining the air-conditioning ducts on the ceiling. "The old man had this scenario," Sulzberger says of his father. "Orvil would go along for a while as publisher and then I was going to take over." But Dry foos died of a heart ailment at 50 after only two years...
...neutron bomb that is slated for production packs a one-kiloton punch. By contrast, most of the tactical nukes that are stockpiled in Europe come in sizes often, 20 and 50 kilotons. If a standard ten-kiloton warhead were detonated, it would level nearly every building within a radius of over a mile. A neutron bomb exploded 130 yds. in the air would destroy all structures within only a 140-yd. radius. It would instantly kill anyone within a half-mile radius, and for people within a one-mile range would cause delayed deaths up to a month after...