Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the paper was sold to Sam Newhouse last year for $50 million, there was worry that Vail's stride would be broken by the press lord's well-known preoccupation with the balance sheet. But that has not happened. Newhouse has appeared at the Plain Dealer only once since he bought it and has not followed his usual practice of holding down editorial staff. He obviously has no fault to find with a paper that has been increasing its circulation about 10,000 a year...
Despite the warning of its publicity sheet, after detailing the plot till within minutes of the end, that "the shocking conclusion of Planet of the Apes will not be revealed in any synopsis," the following synopsis will find it necessary to reveal the shocking conclusion: Three American astronauts zip through space and crashland on a planet where men are mute animals and apes are civilized. The one survivor (Charlton Heston), makes his own intelligence known to a female sociologist and her fiance (Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowell), who provoke a veritable Scopes trial in reverse, at the end of which...
...mimeographed sheet distributed at the meeting charged that Harvard has no need of any fees from students. The College charges for room, board and tuition only "to preserve Harvard's traditional class make-up," the sheet said...
...sheet said that room and board fees "could be eliminated if the Harvard Corporation released unnecessary profits on its $1 billion principal. The sheet said that the Corporation would not have to touch the principal itself or profits needed to meet inflation to do this...
...Harvard's high cost is part of its admissions procedure," the sheet charged. It said that the cost is an "automatic financial filter" used to discriminate against lower-income applicants...