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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...except for forewords and a few connecting passages, are those of TIME, reflecting the flavor, the attitudes, the state of knowledge of the day - sometimes innocent, sometimes opinionated, sometimes prescient, sometimes wrong but very often right. The first four CAPSULES, for 1923, 1929, 1941 and 1950, will go on sale this week in book stores, variety stores and newsstands for $1.65 each in quality soft cover...
...Russian and English than Svetlana and Hutchinson & Co., her British publisher, won a London court ruling temporarily stopping Flegon's plan. In order to protect their copyright under British law, Hutchinson then rushed out a handful of Russian-language copies of the book and put them on sale in obscure London bookshops. London newspapers scooped up the copies, put Russian-reading reviewers to work, and last week the gist of the memoirs...
Dealing with violence, the U.S. faces several tasks, none easy. One is to provide more intelligent, effective law enforcement and, through legislation, to do away with the dangerous unfettered sale of firearms. Another is nothing less than the elimination of the ghetto and what it stands for: an increasingly disaffected population. Though probably there will always be violence-out of anger or greed, love or madness-large-scale, socially significant violence is usually caused by authentic grievances, and the U.S. should be able to narrow if not eliminate these. But that leaves, finally, the individual flash or explosion of violence...
...suggested Press Critic Ben Bagdikian, offer dying papers for sale at a fair market price to independent buyers? To which Jack Howard replied that he and his co-publishers tried to give away the dying New York World Journal Tribune last spring, but there were no takers. "Nobody would accept it as a gift," said Howard. Whether Congress believes the Failing Newspaper Act is the way to rescue insolvent papers remains to be seen. A decision is still innumerable witnesses away...
Property for Sale. Thus it is not surprising that the railroads want to unload. The market for buyers seems to be limited to interests outside the transportation field; a recent bid by Greyhound for a 20% share of REA was knocked down in the courts. The buyer will get 14,000 pieces of automotive equipment, 11,000 trailers, and 7,000 terminals in 50 states. With a new, more flexible approach to the use of those assets, and without the stringent regulations that guide it as a rail holding REA might very well be an interesting property...