Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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"The benefits that would accrue are almost dazzling. No longer would the country's progress be obstructed or impeded by Southern Congressmen hoary with seniority and ready to invoke the filibuster whenever their sectional demands are thwarted. No longer would the law-abiding states of the Union be dismayed...
"At this very moment," the editorial concluded, "groups of Southern electors are on record as bombastically bragging that their states' mandates in the matter of casting of electoral votes need not be obeyed. At this very moment one of the South's truly civilized and gracious cities, New...
The idea was characteristic of Playboy Beebe's style, but the earnest undertone of it (something Beebe religiously avoids) marks it as the work of Managing Editor Robert L. Richards, 49. Richards didn't expect to lose many readers, even among Nevada's transplanted Southerners. Said he...
At 66, a Canadian named Roy Thomson has become an international press lord without peer or precedent (TIME, Nov. 14). Beginning in 1934 with a back-country Canadian newspaper, Businessman Thomson has quietly forged a chain of 76 newspapers (including London's prestigious Sunday Times) in six countries. Last...
Thomson also announced an impending expansion of his beachhead in Africa, where he recently bought a half interest in a Nigerian newspaper chain. Provided he gets a go-ahead from Emperor Haile Selassie ("who seemed very responsive"), Thomson intends to establish an Ethiopian news agency and two Ethiopian dailies-one...