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...Unnoticed by Hearst, the U.S. newspaper reader had crawled out of the jungle and was demanding more edifying fare than the Weekly supplied. By comparison, the new supplements seemed positively intellectual, and as the Weekly declined, they thrived. The Weekly's descent was greased by Hearst's stubborn insistence on staying first at any cost. "It was an obsession," says Arthur H. Motley, 61, publisher of the supplement Parade...
...Pinglangyu and planted Nationalist flags on the beach. In Taipei, Nationalist President Chiang Kaishek declared that conditions on the mainland resembled those of 1911, "when even the officers and men of the Manchu 'new army' were longing for the great day that was soon to dawn." With stubborn, visionary optimism, Chiang predicted large-scale uprisings soon in Red China, and promised that he would then launch a "massive counteroffensive" to help topple the Communists...
...action Saturday, excluding Harvard's now-famous 14-0 win over Cornell, Princeton dumped Columbia in a "mild" upset, 30 to 20; Dartmouth trounced Penn, 30 to 0; and Yale struggled its way past a stubborn Brown eleven...
...common market. It aims at free trade within the largest possible area, enabling industries to cut costs, labor to specialize, capital to move freely where needed in a mass market-to the economic benefit of producer, worker and consumer. But set against Europe's age-old rivalries and stubborn economic nationalism, in which trade barriers used to be as fanatically guarded as national borders, the Common Market is an astonishingly uncommon development...
Still, the popular favorite was old Pablo Casals, the stubborn, spirited Spaniard who exiled himself when the Loyalists were defeated in 1939. And to delighted Israeli officials, nothing was more encouraging about the entire festival than the success of the one-shot performance at Caesarea. With a baited line out for tourists (some 4,000 from Europe and the U.S. attended this year's festival), they began charting plans to speed reconstruction of the long dead city, to refurbish the theater to accommodate 4,000, as it did in Roman times, and to center future festivals in Caesarea...