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...cost-sensitive newspaper publishers have observed for years, there is only one truly basic difference between fresh and used paper: ink. Largely because of ink's stubborn presence, U.S. newspapers, which pay a near-prohibitive $134 a ton for fresh newsprint, get less than $20 a ton for used newsprint, which is repulped and pressed into a coarse grey cardboard of the sort used to stiffen the backs of scratch pads and freshly laundered shirts. If there were an economic and efficient way of removing the ink, waste paper could be used over and over again. Last week...
...month"). He became a hard-working government tax expert. In World War II, he bossed the tax bureau's head office in Tokyo, raising revenues for the Imperial armies. During the U.S. occupation of Japan, he proved to be U.S. Economic Adviser Joseph Dodge's most stubborn and effective aide in holding the line against postwar inflation...
...petitioned Diem to liberalize his regime. Diem ignored them and, perhaps as a warning, ordered the arrest of 30 doctors, journalists and students suspected of "affiliation with the Communists" and sent them to join some 30,000 others in political re-education camps. To protests, Diem has a stubborn answer: "Security must come before liberty...
...coming alive again"-this thoroughly sawed the limb off from under the few Southerners who had supported him.) In New Jersey, Kennedy again spent premium time polishing up Favorite Son Robert Meyner, who, as Governor, was already under stiff pressure by the Kennedy forces in his delegation; still, stubborn Bob Meyner refused to make any public endorsements. In California, Kennedy advance men helped fan reports that Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown was now "leaning" Kennedyward, but Brown was not yet talked out of his 81 first-ballot favorite-son votes. Penn sylvania's Governor David Lawrence (81 votes) kept...
...carry him through inevitable slumps. As a 19-year-old kid out of Commerce, Okla., Mantle was bewildered by the big money and the big publicity that swamped him when he took over the job of Joe DiMaggio in the Yankees' centerfield. Mantle is still a shy, stubborn introvert, who now manages to relax enough among teammates to be judged a wry dugout wit, is respected for playing while injured...