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...according to plan, print-starved New Yorkers will wake one morning this week to find that yet another daily has apparently joined Rupert Murdoch's Post in reaching a separate peace with the city's striking press unions. The 24-page paper, selling for a rather extortionate newsstand price of $1 (the result of a costlier-than-expected union settlement, the paper explains in a frontpage notice), looks just like the Times, only more...
Another change is the new LIFE'S more realistic approach to newsstand and subscription prices and sales. Explains LIFE Publisher Charles Whittingham: "The single most important lesson we learned is that readers have to pay for the magazine. They used to get a free ride." Indeed, when LIFE suspended publication, some subscribers were paying as little as 14¢ a copy, a sum well below the cost of paper and ink. The new LIFE is priced at $1.50 a copy, whether purchased at a newsstand or through the mail, and Whittingham expects that circulation revenue alone will now "do a pretty...
...addition. changes will be noted at the regular kiosk stop. The architects, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, have come up with a snazzy-looking station that overall resembles the fifth floor of Macy's on a slow day. The old entrance at the kiosk will be completely converted into a newsstand, and the new entrances will be at the Square, Church Street. Facilities will include a special elevator for the handicapped at all station stops...
...architect's model of the Square as it will appear after the extension is completed in 1982 includes a newsstand in place of the subway entrance, and a triangular, tree-lined plaza in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank...
Early MBTA plans called for the removal of the kiosk, replacing it with trees and a new entrance. Plans were later changed to have the Kiosk remain as a newsstand...