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...development" in dealing with "incompetent, discredited people carrying on intrigues at their places of work." Trybuna Ludu criticized the Gomulka regime for being too much influenced by "revisionist" economists, denounced the type of market economy now being introduced in other Socialist countries. And Polityka, a magazine with a large readership among young party members, bemoaned the considerable age gap between leading party officials, many of whom are in their sixties, and the rest of the country-40% of whose people have not yet reached their 19th birthday...
Readers had become less provincial themselves by the early '50's. According to Menzies, the influx of technically oriented people to Massachusetts when electronics plants began to go up around the new Route 128 provided new readership. The Globestaff responded to a group of more cosmopolitan readers--and began hiring non-native reporters...
...magazines to the troops is, to be sure, low on the list of military priorities. But last year, newspapers reported that part of TIME'S Viet Cong cover issue (July 28) was found cached in a V.C. cave. Apparently, TIME does get through, with an unusual "pass-along" readership...
...give up the Charlotte, N.C., tabloid; in the last six years he has lost $65,000. "A man can open a Cadillac franchise for less money than newsprint and printing-labor cost," he wrote in his final issue. He added that he has also been losing his readership. "To the generation that succeeded mine, stories about the Lower East Side are like stories about the moon." Nor does he feel that wit is the useful weapon it once was. "The fight for civil rights has lost its romance," he wrote. "There is nothing funny about it any more...
...proud-owner of Chet Huntley's beef farm [Aug. 18] out "in the badlands of central New Jersey" (sometimes referred to by other purveyors of news as that beautifully tranquil countryside out near Bucks County, Pa.), I feel constrained to advise your readership that Marshal Dillon has all the vigilantes locked in the hoosegow, and they won't be let out unless the Beverly Hillbillies ride in to shoot up the town...