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...report on Reston and the Washington press, onetime Chicago United Pressman Charles Mohr temporarily moved out of the White House, where he has been TIME'S correspondent since 1957. The Reston cover was written by Contributing Editor John Koffend, a reporter and columnist for the Omaha World-Herald from 1946 until 1954, when he came to TIME, first as a Los Angeles bureau correspondent, then as a National Affairs writer in New York and, since 1958, as TIME'S Press writer. It was edited by Senior Editor James Keogh, another onetime Omaha newspaperman, who was a World-Herald...
...always been speed for Mickey Thompson, 30. who last week went to the annual Bonneville speed trials on the salt flats of Utah with Challenger I, the flashiest hot-rod of them all. To get ready for his run, Thompson quit his job as a pressman for the Los Angeles Times seven months ago, spent up to 20 hours a day -and most of his savings-working with an engineering friend named Fritz Voigt on the long (20 ft.), low (30 in. at the hood) monster...
...running his first political race. Two years later Congressman Nixon borrowed Klein as an unpaid publicist in the 1948 campaign, borrowed him again in 1952 (again as publicist), 1956 (assistant press secretary) and 1958 (press secretary). During each Nixon stint Klein earned increasing respect from political reporters as a pressman's press secretary...
Making the rounds one morning, the business manager of a big California daily came upon a pressman snoozing in a corner. It turned out that the dozer had been on the job, or at least on the premises, for 26 straight hours-all but seven at overtime wages. Since there was no apparent reason for the money-wasting marathon, the business manager promptly complained to the shop representative of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union. The cold reply: "Well, he needed the money...
...make-work science of featherbedding to a level that is the envy of organized labor. Modern presses can roll at 60,000 papers an hour, but at shift-change time, crews frequently cut speed to a few thousand-to run over into overtime. Such stunts can double a pressman's pay, bring it to $15,000 a year...