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...Mirror and the afternoon Post to continue publishing was based on the idea that this would allow New Yorkers to get something in the way of news to read. But behind this action was the uncomfortable awareness that the Post and Mirror are primarily too weak financially to withstand a strike of any duration. The publishers saw the four-paper ploy as a union attempt to use one group of papers against the other, and so decided to stop the presses en masse...
Progress has always been the great bulldozer, demolishing Greek temples for paving stones and palace walls for slums. How in the New World is the graceful Georgian mansion to withstand the shopping center, or the columned grandeur of Pennsylvania Station to prevail against the flat, glass-curtain wall...
...first brush with McCarthyism was thus scary, but indecisive. No one was certain Harvard had sufficient strength to withstand another attack. The answer came in the second quarter when Holy Cross scored 22 points in ten minutes...
...amatour leagues, where subsidies for team equipment and ice practice time are more readily available. In Canada players from eight to 16 players participate on either Mosquito, Pee Wee, Bantam, or Midget teams. From this lower level of the hookey anarchy those players who are good enough to withstand the stiff competition graduate to the Juvenile ranks, in which they may remain until they reach...
...world's largest line. It would have routes throughout the U.S. and to all continents, a combined fleet of 125 jetliners and sales exceeding $800 million. Next step would be to persuade the Civil Aeronautics Board and the White House that one big U.S. carrier is necessary to withstand the competition of heavily subsidized state-owned foreign airlines. A shadow over the possible TWA-Pan Am combination is the attitude of elusive Industrialist Howard Hughes, who was forced by creditors in 1960 to put his 78.2% ownership of TWA in trust and is now trying to win back voting...