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...also proved, even more emphatically, that Dave Brinkley will never replace Scotty Reston. Timesman Reston managed to communicate to TV's unseen millions a professional's affectionate regard for his paper-even for its faults. It was an evocative statement on what it means to a newspaper reader to be without his newspaper...
...This is one of the great advantages of the Times: you get so much more to throw away. It is impenetrable but indispensable. Other papers cover the news and the Times smothers it, but the reader benefits. People are always dying in the Times who don't seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a little more grace...
...factories, and straightened out the bugs that had delayed for many months delivery of the high-speed 601 computer. The first 601 started whirring last month at New Jersey Bell Telephone, which is paying $375,000 a year rental for it; two more have been ordered by Reader's Digest and Newark's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. Between lower costs and bigger sales, RCA's computer losses were cut almost in half-from about $34 million in 1961 to an estimated $17 million or so in 1962. After taxes, this presumably reduced the computer division...
...some scoundrel been fomenting a holy war in Turkey? Can the dastardly plot to do in the Greek Premier be foiled? Is the hated Boche all cranked up to subvert Mesopotamia? Yes, yes, and yes. The thing to do, as many a British reader from 15 to So knows, is call in Richard Hannay. At least that is what old Sir Walter Bullivant at the Foreign Office always did. and with the most heartening results for both the interests of Old England and the greater glory of a sandpiper-sized Scottish scrivener named John Buchan. A soldier, a respected historian...
...engineering and its ef fect upon scores of tiny lives. His new book might have been called Rut. Its chapters are headed "1841," "1842" and "1843" and so on, as year by ox-drawn year he records the development of the overland route to California. Back and forth the reader travels, five times in the first 100 pages alone, until a pair of transcontinental grooves has been worn into the top of the brain...