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Meagher and Lawrence Wallace, a tough labor negotiator hired from the Knight chain, have concentrated their efforts on the Post's labor costs, which are scheduled to rise by $5 million this year alone. Despite union opposition to labor-saving machinery, the paper bought new photographic composition equipment and began installing it in administrative offices two floors above the pressroom. It also started training about 125 employees to produce the paper during a walkout. Much of that instruction was received at the Newspaper Production and Research Center, an impressively equipped printing school in Oklahoma City supported by the Post...
...Shirley Knight, as the failed sex symbol, is favored with Patrick's most successful character, her speeches filled with wit and wordplay. Knight speaks rhythmically, very sexually, building up to a climax and descending with a crash. Clive Donner also directs well, maintaining control during the more histrionic moments. Under his direction, physical movements augment the script and rescue the show from tedium...
Kennedy's Children. This new play beginning its pre-Broadway run at the Wilbur this weekend was a success in London, so it might be worth checking into. It's by American playwright Robert Patrick, and its cast includes Shirley Knight, Kaiulani Lee, Barbara Montgomery, Don Parker, Michael Sacks and Douglas Travis...
...present 38,000. Some agents are said to be skittish of placing a suspect under surveillance, fearing the repercussions of being overzealous. At the same time, however, the Service is now being urged to clamp a tighter aegis over the President. "With criticism coming from both sides," Director Knight asked recently, "how are we to know where to strike the proper balance...
...agents are acutely aware that there is simply no way to ensure that a President who comes in frequent contact with his fellow Americans can be utterly free from harm. And no man wants to be on the detail that allowed the President to be shot. As Director Knight observed recently, protecting the President is "a living nightmare in a democracy...