Word: quit
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Newspaper competition in large cities has been shrinking steadily since World War II. Urban blight and the middle-class flight to the suburbs have dispersed both readership and retail advertising. Rising production costs are also forcing newspapers to merge with rivals or quit altogether. Already this year, Boston's Herald Traveler has been absorbed by the Record American and Washington's Daily News by the Evening Star. Last week it was the turn of the venerable Newark Evening News, for decades the biggest and best paper in New Jersey. Its death left Newark (pop. 382,000) the largest...
Quiet Talk. Nixon flew on to a high school dedication in Utica, Mich., where he talked about what he had learned from his football coach at Whittier College when he felt like quitting the team. "What is wrong is when you lose, not getting up off that floor and coming back and fighting again," the coach had said. Urged Nixon: "Don't quit, don't ever quit. This country needs the very best that you, the young generation of Americans, can give to it." One way to play the game, he suggested, was to get out and vote...
...becoming extremely explosive, and that God was directing me to act immediately to save the situation." Thus last week Uganda's mercurial President, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, explained his draconian edict: some 60,000 Asians-principally those from the Indian subcontinent who hold British passports-must quit the country within 90 days...
...problems: "It made me become anemic and secondly, as the bones were increasingly affected, it became increasingly painful." He injected himself with a painkiller, but discovered that "under its influence, I could not think clearly and in particular could not rely on my calculations." Thus Sir Francis decided to quit the race, "not because of hazard to myself, but because of the risks to others if I passed out, which seemed probable." Those risks taken by his rescuers were really unnecessary, Sir Francis intimated. "Although I shall always be grateful for the kindness and skill of the help I received...
...press like that of the Pentagon papers. Indeed, an office that Liddy worked out of for a time was whimsically adorned with a sign saying PLUMBER. Another former White House aide, Hugh W. Sloan Jr., became treasurer of the C.R.P.'s finance committee last spring, then quit abruptly on July 14 as the FBI pushed its investigation...