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Loos went to work that day, and was available to the press only at a ten-minute break in the afternoon. He spent the night playing chess with a World-Telegram reporter (he learned to play by mail) and by morning decided to call the whole thing...
Nibbled to Death. Many fast-growing papers, such as California's San Bernadino Sun and Telegram (combined circ. 58,076), which cover the biggest county in the U.S.. fence metropolitan competitors with networks of string correspondents, special editions for local communities, one of the city-slick Sunday magazines. Says the publisher of a small-city Midwestern chain: "You have to be the plus paper." Through such tactics, Michigan's middlesized dailies have pared more than 100,000 Sunday circulation from Hearst's Detroit Times. Laments a metropolitan newspaper executive in Atlanta: "We're being nibbled...
...John Koffend flew to SAC headquarters in Omaha to talk with SAC Commander Thomas S. Power, discovered that Power had just flown in from Washington, was set to fly out to Europe, was too busy to see him. At 3 a.m. from-his hotel room, Koffend fired off a telegram petitioning General Power for an interview. Six hours later he was sitting in Power's office...
...Sights Dog. Headlines yelped such barbaric new words as pupnik and pooch-nik, sputpup and woofnik. Cartoonists filled outer space with gloomy GOPniks and gleeful Demo-niks, drew doghouses occupied by Marshal Zhukov and U.S. defense officials. Readers reported mysterious flying objects that the Fort Worth Star-Telegram promptly dubbed whatniks. Photographers posed Skye terriers and Airedales in front of telescopes, concocted such whatniks of their own as the Knoxville Journal's cut of a space platform with Rin Tin Tin in the driver's seat...
Neither Tangeman nor Boulukos is majoring in science, but both were certain that they could record and send valuable scientific data earthward. Tangeman pointed out that a human being could certainly be of more help than a dog. "I demand man in place of animal," he said in the telegram...