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...ordinary Britons, the switch will be far harder. No longer will a husky man weigh 15 stone but merely a pedantic 95.25 kilograms. A future Miss Universe might stack up on the telly at 91-56-89 (centimeters) instead of a somehow more appetizing 36-22-35 (inches). Bert and Alf will have to give up ordering a pint of mild or stout and order 'alf a liter instead, while the missus will have to shop for half a kilo of butter. And who, if he just misses being run down by a lorry, will feel like saying...
...days and hastened the New York Mirror to its death. Contract negotiations that had run on since October began to run down. Even though the Newspaper Guild and four other unions had tentatively agreed to accept management's top offer of a $10.50 raise spread over two years, Bert Powers, flinty head of Local 6 of the International Typographical Union, wanted more. And the adamant boss of the "Big Six" was well remembered as the architect of the last strike...
...they will have to turn over to the typesetters the issue of automation is far from solved. Computerized operations wil soon be a bigger part of publishing, and Big Six is determined to have its say in how the savings are passed along. By his victory last week, intransigent Bert Powers has solidified his position as the Big Six spokesman...
...well in advance of the contract expiration date, which is March 30. This is a considerable departure from the past, when serious negotiations did not always begin before the contract ran out. Since last October, the unions and the publishers have met 54 times, in an atmosphere that even Bert Powers described as "reasonable...
...Powers is pitted against a different type of adversary. Last time around, he sat across the bargaining table from Amory Howe Bradford, 52, vice president and general manager of the New York Times, an Ivy League product (Phillips Academy, Yale '34) whose icy and unbending demeanor only stiffened Bert Powers' spine. This time, the publishers' bargaining voice is John J. Gaherin, 50, an Irishman with whom Powers can probably come to terms...