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A.F.P. is the direct descendant of the Havas news agency, the stodgy progenitor of all agency reporting, established in 1835 by Charles Havas. Used by the Germans for their own purposes, mostly propaganda, during World War II, the agency was forced to start from scratch as a government enterprise in 1944 under the name Agence France Presse. It played a slow, largely interpretive fourth flute to AP, UPI and Reuters for a decade...
With the two sides expected to resume their talks this week, bargaining will have to start almost from scratch. Still on the table is a two-week-old Ford offer that would raise wages and benefits by about 4% in each of the next three years; wages would go up by 130 an hour the first year, about 110 an hour during each of the next two. That would gradually raise the typical Ford worker's weekly base pay, at present $146, to about $160. The U.A.W. has called for annual wage-benefit increases of 6%, which would boost...
...attempts to safeguard poets or artists; it is generally overlooked that, by the very character of their profession, a scratch may prove mortal...
...scratch of a pen that grated Stalin could prove mortal to its author, and Ilya Ehrenburg set out to safeguard himself from an early, flowered grave. Survive he did, earning the epithet of panderer and opportunist from his detractors. Ehrenburg survived not only the Revolution (he published his first books of poems while the Czar was still on his throne) but all the turns and terrors of successive Soviet regimes...
...ailing Houston auto-parts company, has gobbled up one company after another (among them: Paramount Pictures, New Jersey Zinc) to balloon into a $1 bil-lion-a-year operation. A pioneer in the conglomerate-building field, Los Angeles' Litton Industries, which was started almost from scratch by Chairman Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton (TIME cover, Oct. 4, 1963) and President Roy Ash in 1953, is still building. Last week, Litton (1966 sales: $1.2 billion) arranged to pick up yet another property, Pennsylvania-based Landis Tool...