Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Service. As a barnstormer, he walked wings, became a master of every stunt a Jenny could be put through. Landing was just a matter of picking the likeliest-looking pasture; navigation was done by spotting the shape of rivers, or sometimes by swooping low over the railroad station to read the signs...
...Italian Publisher Giorgio Mondadori for exclusive foreign rights-one of the largest prices ever offered in Europe for a book. By week's end Greenbaum had concluded lucrative agreements with publishers in most European countries. The prices were all the more remarkable since none of the buyers has read the book. It is still in the process of being translated into English by Priscilla Johnson MacMillan at her family's home on Long Island, where she is being assisted by Svetlana. Moreover, the memoir is said to contain few political revelations and not much awareness of Russian politics...
Story in Context. Clifton Daniel, on the other hand, stresses the need for the paper to be entertaining, to provide lighter fare than the news-heavy morning Times. "The afternoon paper," he says, "is largely read by people on the move, who have different expectations from those who read the morning papers. There's the stockbroker who wants the closing prices, the racing fan who wants the results, the office worker who has been penned up all day and wants information about things he has heard piecemeal on the radio or in gossip, and those who want to know...
...rose by 15% to 47,000; advertising linage jumped 20%, running ahead of the Trib by 2.7 million to 1.8 million lines. Trouble was, the Trib-Post, with a circulation of 60,000, was a better paper, with a much keener sense of what the overseas American wanted to read. The Times, despite all its effort to add fresh European shopping and travel features, remained essentially a thin version of the New York edition...
What once said that a student could "discontinue his studies in Harvard College at any time" will now read "ordinarily, no student will be allowed to withdraw in any term after the Reading Period begins...