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...delivered the News every afternoon. In between, he filed so many space-rate stories for the News that the paper put him on a reporter's salary ($8 a week) to save money. Ambition led him to St. Louis in 1905, but when Joseph Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch did not promote him rapidly enough to suit him, Roy Howard, then 22, quit...
...Community, has been hung up by delays and disagreements since its opening in May. The negotiations resumed this week in Geneva, where each nation presented a top-secret list of sensitive and important products that it wishes exempted from the tariff bargaining. Last week, as 45 nations prepared to dispatch their lists to the 19th century Geneva villa where Leo Tolstoy once lived, a new crisis in the Common Market once more showed that France not only is lukewarm about the Kennedy Round but could frustrate it at any time...
Upon request, PBH will dispatch these workers to the Massachusetts Service Corps, where they will be sent off to various schools across the state to contribute both ideas and administrative ability...
...besides the big ones, Johnson has also landed his share of small fry: last week he gained the Utica, N.Y., Observer-Dispatch and the five-paper Lindsay-Schaub chain in Illinois. And Barry Goldwater has made a few big catches. His papers now include the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Oakland, Calif., Tribune and the Richmond News Leader...
...crucial Midwest, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Democratic since Alf Landon) predictably chose L.B.J.; the Toledo Times broke a 116-year-old tradition and followed suit, while the Cincinnati Enquirer opted for Barry, and the Wisconsin State Journal decided, "We cannot honestly recommend either candidate to-the voters." Not surprisingly, one of the nation's largest Negro newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier, editorialized for Johnson. Also in the L.B.J. column were the Louisville Courier-Journal, and New Hampshire's Concord Daily Monitor. LIFE Magazine, which said of L.B.J. last week: "We think he deserves his own full term...