Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parachuting weekly copies from planes which must not only evade U.S. patrols but the Cuban air force too. Diario, reputedly the oldest Spanish-language paper in the hemisphere, is dropped into Cuba two days after publication in a 12-in. by 6-in. packet, tightly folded so as to resist the wind. About 5.000 copies of the two-color, 20-24 page tabloid are sold in Miami; 2,500 go to Cuba by parachute and other means as the gift of Editor José Ignacio Rivero and the twelve-man staff who fled for their lives when the paper...
...Samuel I. Newhouse, 65, the little-known press lord whose 14 daily newspapers form the nation's fastest-growing newspaper chain, anything less than absolute possession of a paper is unthinkable. Sometimes newspapers resist his all-consuming appetite: it took him six years, from 1945 to 1951, to swallow the Jersey City Jersey Journal, and he is still trying diligently to enlarge the 15% bite he took in the Denver Post last June.* Right after Denver, hungry Sam Newhouse invited himself to a newspaper feast in Springfield, Mass. But by last week his New England dinner was biting back...
...tattletale grey, fails to keep a frothy head, or comes apart at the seams when tugged by two circus strong men. The ad industry has already run into trouble with the Federal Trade Commission for doctoring Brand X to ensure foolproof inferiority. Last week the inevitable happened: unable to resist the lure of all those free plugs, several firms are on the market with their own, on-the-level Brand X products...
...supplied from neighboring Communist states, Red China and North Viet Nam. Its own government has little real popular backing (no government has in backward Laos, where there are few roads or telephones and no national newspaper). It is not strong enough or sophisticated enough to resist if Communists should worm their way into the Cabinet and attempt a Putsch...
...trade unions, e.g., the bus drivers, have tried to resist the government's emasculation of the unions. Onetime Castro Labor Boss David Salvador, ousted for Communist Jesus Soto, has gone underground, but most unions submit quietly, even beat the drums for "voluntary pay reductions" to help the dictatorship...