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Wherever Saturday Review of Literature Editor Norman Cousins went on a recent round-the-world trip, foreign editors confronted him with the same angry charge: the U.S. press is stifling world press freedom by its strangle hold on newsprint. In India, Greece, France, Italy, Egypt and Pakistan, says Editor Cousins in the current S.R.L., "invariably I would be asked . . . how did we square [our view of press freedom] with the incredible difficulties facing the world free press largely as a result of American manipulation of sources of paper supply...
...have become desperate. We have been forced to pay up to $300 a ton for paper that costs the American newspaper publisher from $100 to $125 per ton." He noted plaintively that the paper used for one big Sunday edition of a single U.S. newspaper would fill his newsprint needs for nine years...
...creating their own folklore. They can raise heavy loads (up to 40 tons) up an elevatorlike track, and stack them as high as 15 ft. above the floor Some of the new trucks came equipped with interchangeable accessories-forks for lifting boxes, steel fingers for grabbing big rolls, e.g., newsprint. One model boasted a two-way radio, by which its driver could be directed to any corner of a plant...
...newsprint-starved Britain, whose press does an indifferent-to-bad job of covering the U.S., probably only the Guardian would have given Cooke the elbow room for his leisurely essays on everything from Tom Dewey ("a certified public accountant in pursuit of the Holy Grail") to Babe Ruth's death ("He was Hercules with bat in hand, but he was Hercules done by Disney") and the suppressed Briticisms of Anglophobe Robert R. McCormick ("Still talking with a trace of British accent, taking afternoon tea, wearing a wrist watch on each hand, and being forever to his friends known...
...Either paper . . . might be used to start a fire of any desired size. An additional test with newsprint of the New York Daily Worker, sometimes regarded as an inflammatory paper, revealed no significant difference in burning quality...