Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equally painstaking few weeks collecting the necessary statistics for the commercial time chart that runs along with the cover story. TV networks would not release programming logs, so the girls had to spell each other as they monitored a complete three-network "commercial day." Everywhere they went-to the office, to parties, and through all their household chores-they carried their stopwatches with them. One or the other of them was never far from the sight and sound of a TV set. "The hardest part was learning to 'tune in' the commercials after tuning them...
...Humphrey: Georgia (12), Louisiana (10), North Carolina (13-) and Tennessee (11)-But for a growing Negro vote, a deep-rooted Democratic tradition and the fact that most Wallace votes will be skin off Republican hides, Nixon might have been able to count on a clean sweep in Dixie. Georgia went for Barry Goldwater in 1964, but Wallace-not Nixon -will get a good share of those Republican votes this year. In addition, the growing number of Negro and white-moderate voters should provide harmony for Hubert. In Louisiana, a huge Wallace vote is expected to hurt Nixon, as is anticipated...
Sensitive to the outcry, Springer last week went part way toward satisfying his critics. In a surprise move, he sold five of his magazines. Das Neue Blatt, a gossip weekly with a circulation of 1,140,000, was bought for $7.5 million by Heinrich Bauer, Germany's second largest publisher. A small printing and publishing concern, Weitpert, paid about $19 million for the four other publications...
Some 300,000 British railroad workers last week went on slowdown. They not only refused all overtime work but zealously began conforming with all the rigmarole of the 240 regulations in the nationalized British Railways rule book. Guards elaborately checked rail-car doors and couplings, meticulously counted the contents of first-aid kits in locomotives. Engineers took 25-minute tea breaks, stopping many trains on the tracks between stations. Timetables all but vanished in the resulting confusion, and for several days about half the country's passenger trains were delayed or canceled...
...more than survived last fall's devaluation of the pound. Though exports have since climbed by 15%, Britain's promised curb on imports has yet to take effect. May's $206 million trade deficit was just as large as April's. Last week the pound went to a post-devaluation low of $2.3829 on foreign exchange markets. Prime Minister Harold Wilson has so far refused to intervene in the labor disputes, after saying optimistically that "British industry...