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Behind his back, some of the faculty call him "Rufus Rex." Last week Rufus Rex-Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, 70 -quit after 24 years as president of the University of Southern California. In U.S.C.'s official handout, he struck out the word "resigned," left it reading that he had been "elevated" to chancellor, an advisory post. Three days before, a committee that claimed to represent 90% of the faculty had appealed to U.S.C.'s trustees to investigate the "indefensible, inequitable" salaries imposed by Rufus...
...Walter Reuther, U.A.W. vice president and director of the strike, made no comment on a U.A.W. handout which claimed complete victory. But obviously springy, redheaded Reuther could claim some kind of personal triumph. He would go to the U.A.W. convention at Atlantic City this weekend with a substantial campaign argument in his race for the presidency of U.A.W. against President R. J. Thomas...
...John Boettiger strode into the newsroom of the Phoenix Republic and Gazette, thrust a handout at a reporter. It said that Anna and he would "gradually" develop the newsless shoppers' weekly into a daily paper. It did not say (or need to) that John and Anna hope to break the Republic and Gazette's profitable monopoly. The Republic called itself the Republican until 1930, still talks like one; the Gazette, under the same ownership, is only a little more polite to Democrats. The New Dealing Boettigers obviously hoped to capitalize on one fact of life in Arizona...
...February Harper's, Pratt blamed Army & Navy officers in the field, who used censorship to keep "news from Americans instead of facts from the enemy." Press-relations officers became "nothing but messenger boys," said Pratt, and most correspondents, under these official repressions, "turned into 'handout men,' waiting around headquarters for the communiqu...
Between the lines of a routine handout about an ostensibly routine military maneuver, Canadians got a quick glimpse at the lowering future...