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More for the Newest. On the other side of the ledger, the budget calls for an overall spending decrease of $3.8 billion. Some $300 million is trimmed from what budgeteers label "Major National Security" defense, atomic energy, stockpiling and foreign military aid, which together add up to $45.8 billion, 59% of the $77 billion total...
...Publisher W. J. Valentine of California's Antelope Valley Ledger-Gazette (circ. 6,612) the news was significant, and he printed it. AIR FORCE FORECASTS ACTIVITY DECLINE AT PALMDALE AIRPORT, read the Page One banner headline. The story below quoted Air Force officials who said employment at the facility on the edge of the Mojave desert, 60 miles north of Los Angeles, would be reduced from 3,542 to 1,972 by late...
...other papers, which must keep a colder eye on the ledger, laid off most of their newsmen. The Herald Tribune retained key staffers, managed to keep up a normal flow of news to its Paris-printed edition, which delivered without interruption. At the New Dealing Post, Editor James Wechsler heard that Publisher Dorothy Schiff had "furloughed" her men, stalked out on leave without pay, along with his staff. Cooed Dolly: "It's typical of Jimmy's nobility to have done that...
Organization Man King rules by delegating authority to able associates, e.g., brash Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp, ironing out differences, keeping a sharp eye on the ledger. When methodical Cecil King heard last week that a rival bid had been entered for Amalgamated, he was certain that his board of directors would up his offer as necessary, took off as scheduled for Africa, confident that he would become the King of press kings...
...maze of pro-segregation laws was foredoomed to failure. Editor Virginius Dabney's Times-Dispatch called for an assembly commission to think up new defensive tactics, and Editor James Jackson Kilpatrick's News Leader even talked about the possibility of limited, local-option integration. When the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch...