Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first issue of the Star punched pretty hard, meaning that it was difficult to distinguish it from its rivals. The main selling point is a daily "Starbird," a full-page bare-breasted crumpet on page 7 (the Sun usually carries its cuties on page 3, the Mirror on page 5 or 7). The Star's top Stories: MODEL'S MYSTERY PLUNGE (she fell all of 12 ft. from the window of her lover's flat and broke her ankles), I WAS HIDING DRINK IN THE GROCERIES (a soccer player's drinking problem), BEAUTY AND THE PRIEST...
...rival Sun hastened to keep, um, abreast. The day before the Star appeared, the Sun spread) its usual page 3 lovely across a centerfold and promised more to come. Next day the Sun put an unclad cupcake on page 1 (MY LOVE FOR SEX-CHANGE SAILOR, BY NUDE ROSIE) and, on the accustomed page 3, displayed not one but two topless twinkies...
...Mirror was the very model of restraint, running only its usual page 7 pinup. Chairman Percy Roberts had been quoted as promising, "The Daily Mirror will not go down into the gutter to join the war between the Star and the Sun.' Some Britons thought the Mirror had been somewhere in that vicinity all along, however, and the Star's London editor, Peter McKay, snorted, "Humbug...
...those on the ground, the jumpers are hard to see at first as they pour from the plane, but within three or four seconds you can spot them, the sun reflecting off their jumpsuits as they cluster. They become larger, better defined as they fall closer-8,000 ft., 6,000, 4,000. Then the star bursts apart as each person turns by banking his body against the onrushing wind and tracks away from the others...
...explain fully what he did. To many of us with great experience in the field, it still has not been proved that there was a test-tube baby. For all we know so far, the baby could have been conceived by natural means." According to an interview with Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Irv Kupcinet, Blandau further charged that Steptoe had "violated med ical ethics by selling his story to the National Enquirer, supposedly for $650,000, instead of publishing his story in a scientific journal." He also blasted Steptoe for giving "false hope to millions of women because...