Word: publishability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...customer: "It's a real challenge. You have to get the oil out of the ground and to market through this maze of federal restrictions, state regulations and local restrictions." Mobil then sends these cartoons to about 5,000 local newspaper throughout the country. The papers are invited to publish the cartoons free of charge...
...compensate for his restlessness as a diplomat, whose functions included those of intelligence operative, he began to write fiction. The Foreign Office forbids its staff to publish under their own names; Cornwell claims to have seen the name Le Carré ("the square") on a London shop window, though the shop was unlisted in any city directory. "Perhaps," he admits, "it's a lie I've come to believe...
...about the time they spent with the party--in a way, she writes, "the Party experience proved to have been a kind of adult Project Head Start that enabled us to function better than we otherwise might have in the new endeavors we now pursued." Mitford went on to publish an impressive series of books, including one that exposed the corruption of the American undertaking business, and another widely-praised work on the prison system (she went to jail for a spell as part of her research), and to get involved in the anti-war movement...
...programs. In one announcement, for example, it was stated that the Federal Criminal Office agreed to "No 5." After the government released the kidnapers' letter, puzzled West Germans learned that the number referred to a specific demand of the terrorists. Item No. 5 was that the government publish the letter, which concluded with a cool insult: "We are assuming that Schmidt will make every effort to clarify his relationship with this fat magnate of the cream of national industry...
...flurry of post-Watergate books, Victor Lasky's It Didn't Start With Watergate has a unique record. Released last April, it justifiably drew blistering reviews, yet climbed to the bestseller lists and stayed there. (Dial Press has 115,000 copies in print and plans to publish 10,000 more.) The reason seems to be that Lasky tells readers something that quite a few of them want to hear: that abuse of presidential power did not start with Richard Nixon. No responsible authority, of course, ever claimed that it did. But, not content to refute a charge that...