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Reducing Diet. To stay afloat, newspapers have tried everything from diversification (the Charlotte Observer turned a tidy profit last year by leasing its truck fleet) to dieting (the Los Angeles Times has shrunk 5 in. in width, estimates that each ½-in. trim saves $500,000 a year in paper costs). Last year the Milwaukee Journal, minding its pennies, canceled its annual employees' picnic (savings: $12,000), rerouted its newsprint cars (savings: $1,500), and with other items amounting to as little as $250 a year managed to save an overall...
...Syria itself there was now no visible opposition to Nasser's rule (the Communists and all other parties are banned), economic strains were being felt. Syrian foreign exchange holdings had shrunk in half in the merger's first year. Nasser's determination to force Syria's free-enterprise economy into Egypt's state socialist mold had sent private capital into flight, and threatened to make Syria's hard pound almost as soft as Egypt's. It had been a disastrous year for Syria's wheat and barley crops. But Gamal Abdel Nasser...
Only five years ago, candidates spent most of every evening at 14 Plympton writing the news they had spent their afternoons gathering. The proportion of candidates finally elected was astonishingly small. A glance at today's masthead will show, however, that the number of editors has shrunk; and as a result opportunities for election are now greater than ever before...
Fast-developing changes in markets and technology in the U.S. have brought some surprising changes in unions. John L. Lewis, who once could stir up a national crisis with a strike threat from his mighty, 600,000-strong Mine Workers union, is now the boss of a union shrunk to 200,000, and seldom gives cause for alarm. In steel the white-collar percentage in the working force has doubled since 1942 to 18% or 20%, will go up to 33% by 1970. In chemicals it rose from 24% in 1947 to 36% in 1957, will...
...defined. His pulse is a low 64, as it has been for years. (In highly trained athletes it tends to run below the 72 that is considered normal for the general run of sedentary humanity.) His weight, 150 Ibs. spread over a frame that now seems to have shrunk to about 5 ft. 6 in., has not changed in threescore years...