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...Post's target circulation, 1,000,000, is only a shade of what Los Angeles' newest newspaper corpses boasted just before they died-and both were deep in the red. In a single day the Examiner and the Mirror used to sell more newspapers (682,919) than there are people in all 18 towns and cities where new papers began publishing last year...
...historical fact). Kennedy advisers talked about a Rooseveltian 100 days of dramatic success with Congress. But before the azaleas had bloomed in the White House garden, the Roosevelt image went by the boards-and so did the 100-day notion. "This period," says Kennedy today, with just a shade of irritation, "is entirely different from Franklin Roosevelt's day. Everyone says that Roosevelt did this and that...
...executions were carried out by the ruling military junta, headed by General Park Chung Hee, who some observers feel is being just a shade too zealous as a reformer. General Park confirmed the death sentences but delicately refrained from having them carried out until after he had made his good-will visit to U.S. President John Kennedy last month, during which he won strong U.S. backing...
...since had considerable cause to regret it. Save for 1876, which scarcely counts-Rutgers had a severely truncated schedule of one game that year-the Scarlet Knights have never gone through a season undefeated. Down through the years they scraped together a barely respectable record, just a shade over the .500 mark, and even when they did come close to a perfect season, they managed to blow their chances at the last moment. In 1960 they thundered undefeated into the final game, only to be upended by a mediocre Villanova team...
...four parts are played in high comic style. Actress Presle portrays without pity the labored cuteness, the varicose ardors of the nymph at 40. Actress Seberg achieves exactly the right matte shade of skin, the look of slightly tainted meat that suggests and ever so slightly caricatures the girl who sleeps around. Actor Perier interprets to absurd perfection the sort of paterfamiliarity that breeds contempt. And Actor Cassel flutters across the screen with the abandon of a butterfly that, without hope of heaven, can at best expect to spend eternity in a cocktail tray...