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...Complete Handbook of Stone Printing, he told all his secrets, and thus, just as Gutenberg fathered the great industry of printing from type, Senefelder gave the world the basic process widely used in offset printing (though now usually from zinc plates rather than stone). But beyond its commercial uses, the lithograph has been especially dear to the artist. Through this medium, he can spread his message wide and yet know that no matter how many copies are made, each lithograph will retain his personal touch...
...most likely reason for Burns's exit appears to have been his close identification with RCA's belated entry into the computer business. Between huge development costs and slow sales, RCA's computer program has been running at a loss big enough to offset the profit increases other RCA divisions have shown this year -a fact that tarnished Burns's otherwise excellent record (TIME, Sept...
...whatever the gains, they do not begin to offset the price imposed by Peking through oppression and misery. Today no one can be sure how many people share this misery.*** Virtually all Western experts agree that Red China's population is increasing more rapidly than its food supply. Peking seemed to agree until the Great Leap Forward; since then, the attempt to hold down the population through birth control has been virtually abandoned. To Red China's masters, the swarming masses, even hungry, mean military and industrial power. Says a U.S. agricultural expert: "Even if everything were done...
...children giggled, knowing that even in a fairy tale no one would be so foolish as to put on a tariff to offset a subsidy to offset a price support. But their daddy did not join in their merriment, for he knew that the tale he told actually happened in John F. Kennedy's Washington last week...
...Five years ago, accepting Northeast's contention that it could never make money as just a regional New England carrier, the CAB authorized the line to fly the busy New York-Miami route. The CAB's reasoning: with the profits from the Miami run, Northeast could offset its New England losses...