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...said he would fold the Times unless he found a buyer within five months. When he found one, his choice seemed to much of the staff, and to many of the Times's top-drawer readers, a fate worse than death: Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, proprietor of the tabloid daily Sun, which features screaming headlines and photographs of naked women, and the equally lowbrow Sunday News of the World. As proof of his good intentions, Murdoch recruited Harold Evans, for 14 years the esteemed editor of the separate Sunday Times, to run the daily edition; within 13 months, Murdoch...
...DOLLAR IS DEFYING ALL LAWS OF GRAVITY exclaimed Madrid's financial daily Cinco Dias. Newspapers across France's wide political spectrum were equally excited. Read the front page of Paris' conservative Le Figaro: OVER 10 FRANCS, THE DOLLAR HAS GONE THROUGH THE CEILING. One edition of the Socialist tabloid Le Matin included a replica of a $1 bill. By buying a copy for the newsstand price of 4 francs, the newspaper proclaimed, readers could get a "dollar" at a 60% discount...
Goetz was a legend before the public even knew his name. He was dubbed the Subway Shooter, the Death Wish Vigilante. Like a scene from a Charles Bronson movie suddenly splashed into tabloid surreality, his violent act unleashed a torrent of conflicting emotions among those who cast him as either an urban hero or a reckless vigilante. While there was no evidence that the young men had actually attacked Goetz, all had criminal records and three were carrying concealed sharpened screwdrivers that could have been used as weapons. A police hot line set up to collect clues to the fugitive...
...campaign was dogged by innuendoes linking her family to organized crime, and she did not hesitate to slug it out. When the tabloid New York Post reported that her parents had once been arrested on gambling charges, the furious Ferraro said Post Publisher Rupert Murdoch "doesn't have the worth to wipe the dirt from under my mother's shoes." Ferraro's own Roman Catholic Church attacked her pro-choice stand on abortion, but she insisted that the decision must be a woman's, not the state's. When heckled by antiabortion activists, she shot back with wisecracks learned...
...also had troubles with the rumor mills. The company was badly stung last year when its new PCjr could not live up to expectations. Computer Retail News, a trade tabloid, now reports that a new version of IBM's popular PC may be released within the next month...