Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper as well as type. Even the New York Times, which has been lagging behind some of the leaders, is getting ready to launch a study of computer uses for some 50 jobs, from billing to cost analysis. Meanwhile, the paper has just put in automatic, three-a-minute plate casters that promise to save the paper $325,000 a year and 35% of the man-days employed in the current stereotype process. Other newspapers have installed sophisticated conveyor-belt systems, and many have automated mail rooms. Papers are planning to use their computers for management studies, making out payrolls...
...expected long, loud complaints from their unions, have not yet found massive resistance to their plans. The International Typographical Union has vowed only to force gradual rather than radical change, and to slow down the job-robbing effects of automation. Stereotypers have started signing contracts covering jobs on automated plate casters. In Toronto, newspaper owners have written a clause into their new contract with the Newspaper Guild providing for the retraining of employees automated out of a job. And when it meets in Philadelphia for its convention next week, the Guild plans to use the Toronto contract...
Tradition has it at the New York Times that for 65 years the chair set aside for the boss has had an invisible name plate bearing the legend, "Reserved for Family." It is a tradition that dates all the way back to the turn of the century when Adolph Ochs, a printer turned publisher, hocked his Chattanooga Times to take a flyer at running a paper in the big town...
Backstage at the Valley Forge Music Fair, Pennsylvania Governor William W. Scranton, 45, had to take off his hat to Actress Mamie Van Doren, 30. The State G.O.P. gleaned $100,000 from a $100-a-plate Straw Hat Spectacular. And Mamie, an after-dinner treat in Silk Stockings, turned out to be the best dish of all, adding her own gossamer footnote to history. "My dressing room was very girly-girly," she reported later. "We didn't talk much. I thought he was a little flushed when he came in. Then I told him I was a Republican...
...grade and high school level, a $100 tax credit would amount to pennies for parents of children in private schools, paying tuitions in thousands. And some parochial school parents who, in effect, now pay tuition by putting money in the Sunday plate already have a form of relief: they can deduct the money (up to 30% of income, in fact) as a church contribution...