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...Far-Flung Net. Ervin noted that the bill provides for federal voting registrars to be sent into states and counties where there are literacy tests and where 50% of the citizens of eligible age and residence either were not registered as of Nov. 1, 1964, or did not vote in the 1964 elections. This farflung net would catch a good many states and counties where hardly anyone pretends that discrimination exists: a county in Maine, for instance, and the entire state of Alaska...
...admittedly temporary customs union of seven nations that could not or would not get into the Common Market. Britain, which saw EFTA as a second-best alignment until it could ally with the Common Market, has twice the wealth, trade and population of the other six combined. Those far-flung nations range from socialist Norway, Sweden and Denmark through dictatorial Portugal to neutralist Austria and Switzerland. Unlike the Common Market nations, they have no hopes for ultimate political union, no plans to reduce farm tariffs, no intention of establishing a common external tariff...
...indulging in the long delays and lengthy memos that once characterized Westinghouse. He slashed costs by more than $20 million by getting rid of 3,825 white-collar employees, shaved inventories by $8,000,000 with a telecomputer center outside Westinghouse's Pittsburgh headquarters that flashes orders to far-flung warehouses and reminds them to restock...
...Catledge's way may well be the only practical approach to editorial leadership of the Times. On smaller dailies, down-in-the-trenches control by the managing editor is both common and feasible. On the Times, it is virtually impossible. Catledge commands a news-gathering army of 850 far-flung hands. Some denizens of the Times's newsroom sit so far from the boss that when Catledge became managing editor his staff whimsically presented him with binoculars. This crew, with help from wire services, generates some million words of copy each day-of which the daily Times...
...front war. There is the problem of keeping his own fractious Communist house in order, and at the same time keeping the warm wind of détente blowing toward the West. Last week missives and missionaries were flying in all directions over Nikita's far-flung battle lines...