Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolshevik family. "I am definitely not a revolutionary, but neither am I an organization man," he says. "I must do what my heart tells me." Still uncowed after his dismissal, Litvinov announced that he would fight to get his job back by appealing his case to the local trade-union council...
...prison purchasing office, and whiled away his sentence forging $120,000 worth of payment orders for goods the prison never received. During a three-year term for armed robbery in Nice, he suffered a convenient heart attack and wound up living it up in the prison ward of a local hospital. He passed out caviar to his nurses, champagne to his guards, and threw an elaborately catered foie gras party for the whole hospital staff. Then, one night, he staged an equally elaborate escape: after sawing through the bars of his window (to throw police off the track), Aunay...
...Press and News stopped publishing than three interim papers sprang up, ready to reap lush profits. Interestingly enough, the Teamsters, who had called the strike in the first place, were intimately involved in the publication of two of the new papers. All went swimmingly until the Teamsters' local demanded the same stiff wage increase from the interim papers that they had asked of the dailies: a 10% hike over two years, plus a $46 benefit package. Teamsters wanted the papers to hire all 730 of their out-of-work members...
...Guildsmen seek a $25.20-a-week raise over two years. 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...
...slender daily with the motto: "What good is freedom of the press if there isn't one?" A free press apparently means little nuggets of New Leftism; last week the paper expanded somewhat, adding some Chronicle columnists. Meanwhile, out-of-town papers are enjoying brisk sales. The best local rundown of the day's news is provided by educational TV station KQED, which has hired some Chronicle people to read the news...