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...Hearst, whose father took over the Examiner in 1887 and used it as the foundation for his great empire. An end to the morning rivalry obviously made economic sense. The two Hearst papers were losing a combined $4,000,000 a year; the Chronicle claimed to be making a slender profit. Both dailies were gaining circulation-the faster-growing Chronicle now stands at 361,-000 and the Examiner at 303,000-but neither attracted enough new advertising. Says the Chronicle's able, aggressive Executive Editor Scott Newhall: "It has been a debilitating competitive fight, and the reading public...
...slender five-footer who parts his hair squarely in the middle a la Rudolph Valentino, Sobel, 74, is one of the oldest and best-known of 5,000-odd U.S. teaching pros, who make their living by selling clubs, balls and assorted haberdashery, and by giving lessons-mostly to amateurs, but often to the big-name stars of the tournament circuit. Arnold Palmer still takes lessons from his dad, a teaching pro at Pennsylvania's Latrobe Country Club, and Jack Nicklaus polishes his game under the watchful eye of Jack Grout at Miami Beach's La Gorce Country...
Cocktail-Party Talk. Dozens of like emotional divertissements are catalogued in this slender volume, which was written mainly for psychotherapists and reads that way; in Berne's terms, for example, human boredom becomes "structure hunger." But after publication last August, the book slowly began to catch on not only with the referees but with the players. A modest first printing of 3,000 has been succeeded by eight more, for a total of 83,000 copies...
...visibly tired and the public seemed overwhelmingly ready for a switch to Labor. Sir Alec managed to rally his party, and in the end it very nearly defeated Labor last September. Once expecting a landslide, a shaken Harold Wilson had to settle, when the votes were tallied, for a slender four-vote majority...
...both are all for rearmament, NATO and a reunified Germany. But the politicians took note of the fact that two-thirds of today's youth are opposed to joining any party. And Socialist strategists were cheered by their findings that youthful voters favor the Social Democrats by a slender (4-5%) margin, partly because young intellectuals, such as Novelist Gunter Grass, have been campaigning for it (TIME, July 23), but mainly because the S.P.D. has been the underdog for years...