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...headline: SO LONG, BALTIMORE. Thus the News American, which liked to boast that it published the Declaration of Independence, was unable to report a story on Wednesday: its rival, A.S. Abell Co., owner of the Baltimore Sun, would be sold for $600 million to the Los Angeles-based Times Mirror...
That the Sun fetched such a hefty price just after its main competitor folded was coincidental. Times Mirror Chairman Robert Erburu noted that his acquisition of the Abell properties, which include the morning Sun (circ. 205,000) and the Evening Sun (circ. 152,000), as well as two television stations and two magazines, had been in the works since April. Said he: "We saw a good opportunity and went...
...prosecution, but instead of quietly dropping the matter, the store reported the incident, which took place on May 7, to New York City police last week. The indignant Iranian ambassador thereupon called a press conference at which he insisted that he had merely been searching for a three-way mirror to see if the coat...
...version of the author's father, a West Indian journalist. Seepersad Naipaul publicly labeled the rite of goat sacrifice superstitious. He subsequently received a note in Hindi ordering him to perform the sacrifice or perish within the week, acquiesced, and then went mad. "He looked in the mirror one day," the novelist's mother recalled, "and couldn't see himself. And he began to scream." A siren of Britain's Roaring Twenties, Heiress Nancy Cunard appears in at least seven books under various guises. She "seems to have had lovers almost as often as the rest of us have lunch...
...Kitt Peak telescope had been aimed at what appeared to be two quasars, mysterious, intensely bright bodies so far away that the light they emit travels for billions of years before reaching the earth. Gathered by the telescope's parabolic mirror, the light from each of the quasars was converted into a spectrum, from which a quasar's characteristics and even its distance can be determined. Most scientists believe that each of the some 3,000 known quasars, and thus the spectrum of each, is unique. Says Charles Lawrence, a Caltech astronomer and a co-author of the Nature paper...