Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Only now, three months later, has the President informed me that the remaining peepholes will be provided. This fall the Vice President instituted a midnight-to-eight patrol, one patrolman covering three river-area Houses. Everyone welcomed and supported this step toward better security; but after four months the punch-clocks to insure that the patrolling is actually being done in the House areas have not yet been installed. I continue to feel uneasiness for security during those hours...
...punch of Jim Kleiger and Blayne Heckel again proved to be too much for the competition in the pole vault as Kleiger set a meet record with a fine vault of 16'1/4". Freshman Mel Embree won as expected in the high jump with a surprisingly...
...Punch Too Much...
...central issue in the bargaining will be automation, particularly in the composing room. "We have to have it," insists Times Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger. While many papers elsewhere have clung to life and profits by modernizing technical operations, Bertram Powers, president of Typographical Union No. 6, has forced the New York dailies to retain archaic machinery and procedures. Automation would allow the Times, for one thing, to phase out Linotype machines (a 19th century invention) and install computers that can set type directly from edited copy. Such moves have been anathema to the printers in the past. Ten years...
...Sulzberger memo also acknowledged, but did not spell out, problems "of our own making." For decades the Times was run like a cozy family affair. The opportunity to acquire a TV station was ignored 25 years ago. Staff was allowed to expand with little concern for the cost. Says Punch Sulzberger: "When I first came here [1955], there was no budget." Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Punch's father, would share profit-and-loss figures with only three other top executives because, as his son says, "It was no one else's business." According to Sulzberger, then-Managing Editor Turner...