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...sports page is sporting an 18 and a half inch hole. And so last night the stage was set for that once-a-year star, that welcome visitor, that let's students take a pause from the exam time blues. Yes, it's time for the Crime's super basketball quiz...
Hughes said that he was speaking from Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Among many other subjects, he discussed a report that he had turned into a troglodytic creature with waist-length beard and eight-inch fingernails. Said Hughes: "Why, hell, how could I write my name if I had fingernails?" Each reporter had prepared test questions to establish Hughes' identity, and Hughes was often vague and uncertain in his answers. Hughes was adamant, however, about the manuscript. "This must go down in history," he said. "I don't remember any script...
...orange was something less than a success after it first appeared on St. Patrick's Day, 1926, and a compensatory green was also short-lived). The thin lines were in turn eliminated. Now we are going one step further, reducing the red border by three-sixteenths of an inch. This gives the painting or photograph greater visual impact. To match it, the logotype has been made a degree bolder...
Captions are also being strengthened. Headlines and captions now become "flush left" instead of centered, and the margins become wider by one-fourth of an inch. The aim is to make our pages easier on the eye. The index now will have a permanent place on page 2 so that readers will not have to hunt for it. Section headings are being placed in either color or gray bars because . . . well, because the editors think they look better that...
...Inch Pinch. Shrimp lovers in America are not the worst hurt victims of price rise. Japanese consumers are paying dearly for their crush on crustaceans: up to 58? each for jumbo six-inchers. Yet sales are increasing by 20% a year, partly because Japanese personal incomes have been rising...