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...April, a move that will save $100,000 a year in paper costs. Newspaper Guild employees at the Washington Star-News voted to go on a four-day week, at four days' pay, in order to avoid the elimination of 100 jobs. WTTG-TV, Washington's Metromedia outlet, cut its budget by $500,000 this year and laid off a reporter and a weather forecaster. At Hugh Hefner's Playboy Enterprises, six of Out magazine's 35 editorial employees received notice two weeks ago; the company has a freeze on hiring and raises, and Hef himself...
...official outlet for the United States Information Agency (USIA), Voice of America, with 2,303 employees and an annual budget of $55 million, operates under statutory authority. Its stated mission is to report on the U.S. and American foreign policy and to "combat Communism." In practice, it has wobbled between its dual roles as Government propagandist and conveyor of straight news. James Keogh, the former executive editor of TIME who became USIA director in 1973, discarded the old Cold War attitudes of his hard line predecessor, Frank Shakespeare. Under Keogh, a skilled, seasoned newsman, VGA began finally to accept detente...
...Alcohol," undoubtedly the highlight of the first part, provided the perfect outlet for Davies's strong attachment to the music hall/vaudeville traditions of his youth. The song was introduced in a quasi-puritanical manner, in which Davies warned the world against the imminent dangers of demon alcohol, while keyboard man John Gosling tinkled the ivories in such a fashion as to mock good-naturedly the somber scenario Davies tried to conjure up. The song's crapulous ambiance was supported by the sluggish, drawn out tempo of the Dixieland horn section and Davies's possibly unintentional slurring of the lyrics...
...Mobutu's visit to Peking last year, Kinshasa now swarms with Chinese doctors and agricultural technicians. The Japanese have been asked to help build Zaire's first transnational railroad. The French and Belgians are planning a new deepwater port at Banana, Zaire's only direct sea outlet on its short 23-mile Atlantic coastline...
...suit to stop the picketing will probably try to win a limit on the number of picketers allowed outside the retail outlet. Previous decisions in similar cases limited the number to as few as three...