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...Samuel I. Newhouse, a man who has spent a lifetime buying newspapers (he now has 14) and making them pay, has never seriously shopped in New York; he feels that Manhattan's field of seven will ultimately shrink to four. Times Publisher Orvil Dryfoos, agrees that the presence of seven Manhattan dailies is "freakish." Says Dryfoos, without naming those papers he thinks are doomed: "Within ten years there's bound to be a different lineup...
...Hemingway kept insisting that, somehow, her husband's death had been an accident. Plainly it could not have been. Moreover, Hemingway had been ill and depressed for a long time. His blood pressure was high, and his doctor suspected incipient diabetes. His eating and drinking were restricted-to shrink more than 40 Ibs. from the bearlike physique in which he had always taken a small boy's pride. Literary visitors last winter found Hemingway inarticulate and insecure, pathetically doubting not only his current creative powers but the value of all he had ever done. In two lengthy stays...
...hubbub of conflicting opinions, only one voice was silent. Fidel Castro, who has never been known to shrink from public speech, had not been heard from for two weeks. The frustrated committee finally sent an ultimatum to Havana, gave Castro until midweek to accept its offer or call the whole thing...
Throwing away passes, missing easy shots, and suddenly displaying a porous defense, the Crimson allowed its lead to shrink to five, 64-59. When Denny Lynch hit two foul shots, the fans breathed more easily, happy that they had seen an exciting game...
...Market, believes this to be a defect due to the rotting substructure. Mrs. Kimball, however, insists that her section of the building was constructed with a list so that the late 19th century sailmakers could lay their goods lengthwise along the floor, then pour water over the cloth to shrink it. A drain gathered the water...