Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Menard prison's eight-page, tabloid-size monthly newspaper is one of the best of some 200 publications produced by and for convicts. As a whole, they make for one of the more captivating aspects of the nation's press. They vary widely in style, from muddy mimeographs to a glossy, three-color quarterly, like the Atlantian at the U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta. Their circulation can be impressive: the biweekly press run of the San Quentin News is 10,000 copies, 1,481 of which go by mail to paid subscribers, including Actor Jack Palance and Society Columnist...
This year, the University of Missouri School of Journalism-the oldest, biggest and most celebrated undergraduate J-school in the nation - is marking its 50th anniversary of helping good smart kids. Missouri has turned out some 6,500 graduates, including U.P.I. Vice President and Washington Manager Lyle Wilson, Publisher Jack Flynn of the New York Daily News, and the late sportswriter Bill Corum of the Hearst papers...
Although attendance in the nation's journalism schools is down to 11,000 students, a 40% drop since the high of 1948, Missouri still has plenty of applicants. Some 300 students are majoring in such subjects as news-editorial, radiotelevision, and weekly and small-daily publishing. Since most of its graduates go to work for small dailies or weeklies-fully 30% stay in the state-the school offers noncredit courses in backshop work. Editors have long since been shown by Missouri; the graduating class annually has four times as many job offers as members...
...C.I.O Air Line Pilots Association last week carrying placards: "Thanks for the Merry Christmas, A.L.P.A." "You've Got $28,000 Now. What More Do You Want?" "A.L.P.A., the Company-Busting Union." The pickets were American Airlines reservations agents protesting the strike by 1,500 pilots of American, the nation's biggest line and the sixth one immobilized by labor strife...
Meantime, the nation's No. 3 airline. Eastern, moved a step toward settling its five-week-old walkout, which costs it $1,300,000 a day. Its striking machinists voted to accept a three-year package that brings top pay to $2.95 an hour. Eastern is still negotiating with its engineers, who balk at company orders that they must take pilot training to fly on jets...