So long as they had no real competition, the networks relished newsless conventions to advertise their anchors and technologies.

Every thirty seconds a laser beam pinged out, bounced off a focal sphere eighty miles away, and came back newsless.

It may have been an intuition that the letter would be newsless inside that made Oedipa look more closely at its outside, when it arrived.

She weighed backtracking to her car, walking to it as fast as possible for warmth, and returning to Ramsey to have him assist her in calling in her newsless story.

Owner by inheritance of a small-town weekly, its col- umns filled with stale and newsless news as boring to himself as to his subscribers, he reflected that Miss Gerraghty's con- tempt was deserved.

As Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev stepped into the rain to say farewell after a newsless summit, the diplomatic words that would signal genuine progress in superpower relations would be fruitful and productive.

Tony Blankley, the spokesman for Speaker Newt Gingrich, gladly offered Republican campaign sound bites Gatling-gun fast to scores of reporters suddenly awakened from the torpor of the newsless diet of the formal convention week designed by Mr. Morris.

The smallest flush under the white skin was the only sign that she was excited: she was beautifully dressed and not at all frayed in manner as was Mariotta, who showed the effects of the three newsless weeks since Tom Erskine's return from Hexham.

But the comments which most hit home were those of the young Lord Altrincham, in his English and National Review, a magazine of scarcely greater significance, but which had the good fortune to publish its August 1957 edition on a newsless Bank Holiday.