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...Americans, we do not want to be dominated by the Pope of Rome; neither do we wish to be controlled by Protestant "popes." I refer to the trend to have a Catholic candidate declare his views, which originated under the guise of patriotism by men whose arguments are based on their own religious convictions...
...first his people called him "Show-boy." Then he became his government's Prime Minister. This year he became his Queen's Privy Councilor. His local admirers now also refer to him as First Citizen of the African Continent. But when it comes to titles, there seems to be no stopping Kwame Nkrumah, 50. Last week the Accra Evening News, one of the Prime Minister's more effusive admirers (it manages to run one or more pictures of him almost every day), announced that next March the people of Ghana would get a chance to decide...
...resident high school teacher in Santarem, 400 miles west of Belem, for five years, with plans to return, I am delighted to refer those interested in my trip to your summary and (for me) nostalgic views of such colorful cities as Belém and Manaus...
Burnett pointed specifically at the big magazines' red-hot race for circulation and advertising, and suggested that its effects have hurt the editorial side. "I refer particularly to the mad race to provide the most of everything quantitative -more regional editions, more local editions, more split runs, more different and sometimes bizarre ad sizes, more circulation at any cost, and so many flips, flops, folds, inserts and coupons that many a magazine today looks like a convention issue of the gadget and gimmick news...
Honky-Tonk Lunches. The Economist on last week's newsstands had 136 pages, was the fattest issue in the history of the publication (Economist staffers steadfastly decline to call it a magazine, always refer to it as "the paper"). The newsstand sales put U.S. circulation up to 7,500 and total circulation to 60,500, both Economist records. But however encouraging such figures may be to Economist editors, they fully realize that what matters most about the Economist is not how many readers it has, but who its readers are. And the sort of people who read the Economist...