Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regular 150. The larger-than-normal press run of 800,000 virtually sold out, as did 1,200 copies flown to Washington Wednesday morning. The Trib spent $50,000 on extra newsprint alone. The paper is now selling copies of the transcript for 50c and filling a heavy mail-order demand at $1.50 each...
Still, the strong feeling among newsmen, politicians and lawyers in London is that gagging writs will never again be a reliable device for silencing the press. Said Bernard Levin, a top columnist for the Times of London: "The dam is down beyond any possibility of re-erection." Mail Editor David English echoes the common sentiment among British journalists: "I don't think that after Watergate we could have gone on as before...
Fleet Street's timidity seemed well intact recently when the pro-Tory Daily Mail held off publishing the results of its probe into a land-profiteering deal involving two associates of Labor Party leader Harold Wilson (TIME, April 15 and April 22) until after the February election. But editors, who had been increasingly restless while watching American journalists pursue Watergate vigorously, decided to be sheep no longer. On April 3, a month after Wilson returned to power as Prime Minister, the Mail and Daily Express both broke front-page stories on the transaction. Enraged, Wilson issued libel writs against...
...University will ask the National Labor Relations Board this month not to allow the mail workers to unionize on the grounds that they "would not be an appropriate unit" within the printers' union, John B. Butler, director of personnel, said this week...
...future of the strike is indefinite. Student support, which seems likely to grow, will undoubtedly continue to put some pressure on the University. If the mail workers unionize and strike--which could take more than a month if it happens at all--and the typesetters strike, it would help the lithographers' and bookbinders' cause. On the other hand, the union strike fund won't last forever, and the cost of the strike to Harvard--though considerable--will probably dwindle if this week's trend on deliveries continues. Proportionally, it appears at this point that the University has more to lose...