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What makes Sagan sprint is the realization that metropolitan dailies today are leaving an ever-widening void for small neighborhood papers to fill (TIME, Dec. 2). In no city in the U.S. is this more true than in sprawling Chicago, whose press is frequently apathetic to corruption. Says Press Baronet Sagan: "A neighborhood paper has the local, personal function, the bread-and-butter job, of telling who married whom-and you'd be surprised how many people care. The second function is concern for civic affairs. A city is a terribly complicated animal. It's even harder...
...distantly, a void...
...Said the story below: "It's a case of the dog wagging the world." Scenting a new trend in Soviet science, the Chicago Sun-Times'?, Columnist Irv Kupcinet declared: "The Russians are raising a new breed of dog-Moongrel." The week's longest reach into the void: when the Russians shoot cows into outer space, it will be the herd shot 'round the world...
...told the junta that they indeed wanted new elections, which they might well win. Ydigoras also made the pilgrimage to the junta, and with the U.S. air and military attachés sitting in at his request as "foreign observers," he stated his terms: an election recount that would void the Ortiz ballots...
André Malraux once defined the task of modern man as filling the void left by the 19th century's loss of faith. He himself has recently retreated to the religion of art, embracing the Nietzschean view that "we have art in order not to die of the truth." At a fellow-traveling distance, Jean-Paul Sartre consoles himself with the shifting certitudes of Communism. Albert Camus has too lucid a mind and too scrupulous a moral conscience to opt for such relatively easy solutions. With each successive book, he seems to be sweeping closer to a Niagara...