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...Management has offered $13 over the same period. The longer the strike drags on, the more nonunion personnel the Herald-Examiner hires to put out the paper. It is not much different from the usual one. It skimps on local news, runs a lot of wire service copy, a flock of columnists and a strong sports page. The paper claims a 600,000 press run; its normal circulation...
Soon, Kuralt plans to head his bus for Hinckley, Ohio, where, like the swallows of Capistrano, a flock of buzzards returns every year, for what has become an annual Buzzard Festival. All this is hardly bulletin matter. Yet, if nothing else, the enthusiastic response of viewers to Kuralt's vignettes does prove, as he says, that "the definition of television news needs broadening...
This must certainly represent some new kind of low in enthusiasm for the military under war-time conditions. Not only are students failing to flock to the recruiter, there are definite signs that they are actually avoiding him. For obvious reasons, the military has rarely aroused enthusiasm in academia; nonetheless it is interesting to note how far students have moved towards active dislike for the image of our fighting men abroad...
...Mississippi. Negroes from the Magnolia State are going to flock to Chicago this summer in a replay of the 1964 Atlantic City attempt to unseat the party regulars. That year the party handed Negroes a compromise, seating of two of the challengers as guests; this time, a compromise will be more difficult...
...flock of women, not enjoying their husbands frequently, decide they must change the situation. Lysistrata tells them not to enjoy their husbands at all. Her strategy doesn't spring from any nunnish credo. After all, she's the one who demands rhetorically, What do women want? They want to get laid. And she, favoring the practice, plans to make it possible every night. A few hard days of chastity and the men will be so worn out that, in order to go to bed, they'll scream for the peace their women ask for with stony faces. Then everybody will...