Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the risk for the authors, Western publishers go to considerable lengths to obtain Russian manuscripts. The latest literary contraband, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward, is at the very least a tribute to their competitive zeal. As of last week, it had already been printed in excerpts by two magazines, in full by one publisher, and was being readied for printing by at least two others-a wild maze of editions even for the strange world of literary smuggling...
Such manuscripts reach the hands of Grani Publisher Gleb Rar by a variety of well-planned means, including secret contacts arranged by Rar between Russian writers and Western visitors (one was British Lecturer Gerald Brooke, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for bringing in anti-Soviet propaganda). Rar says that he prints "only a fraction" of what he gets. Usually, as in Cancer Ward, he publishes excerpts in Grani first and then a full text through Grani's parent publishing house, Possev, which prints a variety of Russian-language fiction and nonfiction titles; much of its output...
...spite of a new corporate symbol and the influx of $450 million raised to modernize the creaky 117-year-old company, Western Union's growth rate has been discouraging. Telegrams, which still account for 46% of the company's revenues, were off last year; some modernization programs were slow getting started and, as a result, revenues rose a meager 5%. But Western Union does have some interesting possibilities. One is that, in spite of assets of $741 million, its total common-stock value is about $350 million-which puts it in the range that an acquisitive-minded smaller...
...first move came three weeks ago from Texas-based University Computing Co., which attempted to acquire Western Union with a tender offer for a controlling 10% of W.U. stock. The offer sent the stock from $35 a share to $44.88 and prompted other prospective buyers to step up their efforts. Last week Computer Sciences Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., which is about one-sixth as big as Western Union, made a better bid. After marathon negotiations in New York and Washington between Chairman-President Russell W. McFall of Western Union and Founder-Chairman Fletcher Jones of Computer Sciences...
...only to pick the seat they want in a matter of seconds but to receive a computerized ticket as well. With only 1% of U.S. computers so far linked to one another v. estimates of 50% within the next decade, Computer Sciences will now be able to use Western Union to broaden the state...