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KANSAS CITY, MO., Starlight Theater: Alltime trouper Bert Parks as Music...
...using a computerized typesetter. Bertram Powers, local boss of the International Typographical Union, was adamantly demanding 50% of any wage savings. Between the two, they were generating rumors that Manhattan might soon lose another daily. Then, after a week's trial run with the computer at the Post, Bert Powers went off on vacation. The paper went back to its old-fashioned Linotype machines, and Mrs. Schiff, apparently accepting at least a temporary defeat, announced the negotiations had been adjourned sine...
...What does that mean?" gulped Bert Powers, envisioning 280 jobless union printers...
Around the Horn. The papers' difficulties go deeper than Bert Powers. At a time when city dailies are fast dwindling, New York still has six of them-more than any other city in the U.S. But suburban papers, newsmagazines and radio and television have cut deeply into the circulation of all but the News and Times. From 1955 to 1964, the circulation of the Trib dropped from 340,462 to 307,674, the Journal sagged from 653,291 to 538,057, the Telegram from 570,275 to 403,340, the Post from 399,886 to 329,523; in that...
...discussion at the end of the program, three CBS newsmen appeared on camera to sum up. Was the U.S. justified in breaking "the rules of international conduct?" asked Kuralt. Johnson's decision, answered Reporter Bert Quint, brought back "the whole specter of Yankee imperialism in Latin America. It was a decision that is making a lot of Latin Americans hate us." Then Kuralt and Quint turned for guidance to Eric Sevareid, CBS National Correspondent. And like a fatherly professor reproving wayward journalism students, Sevareid offered some corrections: "The specter of American gunboat diplomacy, I would suggest, is a much...