Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Rush Harrison Kress, 85, younger brother of the late dime-store king and famed art collector, who as president of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation since 1955, carried on his brother's 20-year project for the donation of $50 million worth of art treasures to U.S. museums; in New York...
...costly settlement," said Negotiator Amory H. Bradford, vice president of the Times, "but one acceptable to the publishers." The pact will add $18.5 million to the newspapers' expenses over the next two years-and may well force the morning papers to raise their price to a dime. But it was far less expensive than it might have been. Powers went into the strike demanding a $37-a-week package increase, wound up with $12.50-including $8 in wages. And while Powers had insisted that his chief concern was not money but three matters of "principle," he got all that...
Obviously built for a wide-awake wardrobe was perpetual Cinema Starlet Jill St. John, 22, back to the grind in a Paramount peepshow called Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? Whoever it was, it didn't seem to be her husband, hot rodding Five-and-Dime Heir Lance Reventlow, 27. All Jill wants from Lance these days is separate maintenance...
...been illadvised. Nobody can tell me that there is anything in our demands that is unreasonable." All Powers wanted was his own kind of contract. "A man must believe in unions to do this. You can't rely on management. Employers won't give you a dime. The public's desire is a settlement. Our desire is a contract." And the strike went...
...York's afternoon papers already sell for a dime. The four morning papers still sell for a nickel, but the pacesetting New York Times, anxious to keep the Herald Tribune from developing into a healthy competitor, will raise its copy price only as a desperate last resort. As for newspaper ad rates, they are dangerously high, in a period when the newspapers are getting more of a run than ever from magazines, radio...