Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plant of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, which has now been struck for eleven weeks, is virtually under siege. With a determination rarely displayed these days by a publisher confronted with a strike, George R. Hearst Jr., grandson of William Randolph, has struggled to continue publishing his afternoon paper. It has missed only two days since the strike began. Though its circulation has dropped from 726,000 to 500,000 and it prints two editions instead of six, it continues to reach the streets and subscribers with its usual heavy load of columnists, features and wire-service copy...
Within the plant, Hearst has maintained a high degree of efficiency. Management, of course, is still on the job, as are eleven top editors and reporters who are under personal contract to the paper. There are no longer any time-wasting jurisdictional disputes, because there are no more jurisdictions. Printers help out stereotypers, stereotypers assist pressmen, pressmen lend the mailers a hand. Even reporters are called on to run copy and dirty their hands in the back shop. Hearst himself is in and out of the newsroom and the pressroom, sometimes answering the telephone or composing type. "He seems real...
...with one on motorcycling. Spend an afternoon with Warren Beatty, an evening with Timothy Leary. Run the confessions of a college dropout, along with a few essentials about "the good, grey rebel," Eugene McCarthy. Sprinkle in some pictures of electric dresses. And right in the middle of it all, plant one of those psychedelic fold-out posters. Crazy...
...country began to reindustrialize, Siemens was pump-primed with Marshall Plan money-then German determination took over. The company's aggressive salesmen traveled the world to sell a full range of electronics products. Late last month, Siemens won a $75 million contract to build a nuclear power plant in Argentina-Latin America's first. In the process, it defeated such old nuclear hands as G.E. and Westinghouse...
Much of that country-fair atmosphere originated with the trend toward enclosed, generally glass-roofed malls. Inside, developers plant tropical gardens dotted with benches, fountains and even aviaries. New Jersey's Delaware Township even changed its name to Cherry Hill, after that of its shopping center, whose verdant mall draws sightseers and customers from cities 100 miles away...