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Newspaper competition in large cities has been shrinking steadily since World War II. Urban blight and the middle-class flight to the suburbs have dispersed both readership and retail advertising. Rising production costs are also forcing newspapers to merge with rivals or quit altogether. Already this year, Boston's Herald Traveler has been absorbed by the Record American and Washington's Daily News by the Evening Star. Last week it was the turn of the venerable Newark Evening News, for decades the biggest and best paper in New Jersey. Its death left Newark (pop. 382,000) the largest...
...preliminary platform approved last week was laced with anti-McGovern vitriol. It asserted that the Democratic Party has been "seized by a radical clique which scorns our nation's past and would blight her future," and would turn "back toward a nightmarish time in which the torch of free America was virtually snuffed out in a storm of violence and protest." It piously protests that the U.S. should not perform an "act of betrayal" by overthrowing the Saigon government, nor should it "go begging to Hanoi." And: "We reject a whimpering 'come back America' retreat into isolationism...
...city of light becoming the city of blight? Not really. The ardent reaction is partly due to the fact that Paris remained virtually unchanged for half a century. Unlike Berlin or London, it escaped bombing during World War II and did not have to be rebuilt. Nor are Parisians like American city dwellers, who see constant demolition and construction as necessary signs of economic health. Paris remained recognizably the place described by Proust, Hemingway and Fitzgerald-stylish, intimate and lovely. That was part of its charm, and any change thus comes as a shock...
Each year more and more American elm trees, which once lined hundreds of town squares, fall victim to Dutch elm disease. Last year the apparently incurable blight destroyed at least half a million trees in the U.S. This summer the pestilence may be worse; it has spread from the East through the South and Midwest and is now attacking trees as far west as Denver...
...even more likely that the land will be sold if Calvin W. Stillman '39, a descendant of the original donor, has his way. Stillman wrote in a 1966 report. "The Issues in the Storm King Controversy," that he felt "the plant as planned constitutes no significant blight upon the natural beauty of Storm King and the Hudson River shorelines...