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...advent of Murdoch, publishing tycoon on three continents, is of more than parochial New York City interest: he gave promise, with his money and his maverick irreverence, of brightening up the increasingly sedate American newspaper scene. The trend is all the other way: newspapers in monopoly cities being sold for huge sums to absentee conglomerates. Unless a local editor with courage and energy insists otherwise, the natural commercial impulse is to put out complacent, unenterprising papers that don't embarrass the local powers that be and make no waves. So far Murdoch, a fellow refreshingly free of cultural pretensions...
Wahoo Sam, perhaps the game's greatest slugger before the advent of Tyrus Raymond Cobb, put it best when he said a few years ago, "And still they don't give him a tumble for the Hail of Fame. It's not right...
...story of how a relatively undeveloped region can take advantage of its resources for the economic benefit of the people who live in it. And in fact even with Alaska's soaring inflation rate real income for most of the state's residents rose markedly with the advent of the pipeline. The discovery of oil off the northern shore of Alaska carried with it an enormous potential for broad-based economic benefit: profits for the oil companies, jobs for the unemployed, and oil for the nation...
...hottest show in Washington is, of course, the advent of the new Administration. Without question, the second hottest show is the spectacular new National Air and Space Museum. Attendance for the first six months has reached more than 5 million, nearly double the projections. TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin has touched down in the museum almost a dozen times. His report...
...politician than you are," was correct, it is clear that the Socialist party's problems were not solely the product of failures on the part of its leadership. The ideological divisions and rivalries among the parties of the American Left, government repression, the superficially socialistic New Deal, and the advent of World War II constituted political obstacles that may well have been insurmountable. In any case, a sophisticated analysis of the Socialist Party's decline is a task more suited to an academic than to a biographer, and Swanberg is more interested in providing a complete, detailed study...