Word: sells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haven Railroad of the skies. It made a profit only once in the past twelve years-in 1966, when a strike grounded competitors. Otherwise, it lost up to $10 million annually. Last week, however, "The All-Steak Airline" became a pioneer of sorts. After numerous unsuccessful efforts to sell Northeast, Storer Broadcasting Co., which owns 86% of the stock, induced Northwest Airlines to take it. The merger would be the first among U.S. trunk lines since United acquired Capital in 1961, and could set off a new round of airline consolidations...
...their sober-sidedness. They want participatory democracy and dream up utopian reforms. Good. But the Benedictines had participatory democracy 1200 years ago and kept a spirit of contemplation, joy, work and celebration in the process. He might have criticized them for their anti-intellectualism too. If old forms sell you out, dream up new ones...
This newspaper has had its differences of opinion with President Nixon concerning the Vietnam War, but we do regard him as a well-intentioned man who will ulitmately balk at proposals to sell millions of Southeast Asians into bondage. We do believe that he intends to honor our treaty commitments, and that he genuinely- albeit mistakenly- is now convinced that the enemy will become reasonable when the enemy senses that there is nothing to be gained by stalling at the peace negotiations...
...basement of the church is set up as if for a church bazaar. Little booths roped off with string sell anti-war books (ten per cent off), food (coffee and sandwich for a fifteen cent "donation"), and bumper stickers (fifty cents). Others provide general information, housing arrangements, and the ever-present leaflets and flyers...
...while the niece may be dark in theme, David Boorstin's direction sustains a lightness of execution. If anything, the pace sometimes gets a bit too frenetic. The musical backing of The Rhythm Method adds a driving hard sell that puts over much of the rest of the play quite successfully...