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...last May showed that Democrats like Lindsay better than anyone except Edward Kennedy. Professional politicians throughout the country are interested in his potential, but the general public still has a "show me" attitude. Part of his fascination is that he is almost preternaturally handsome and photogenic -the London Daily Sketch in a recent effusion called him "the sexiest man in the world"-and formidably charming as a campaigner. The new 18-year-old voters would doubtless be a rich source of power to him (see following story) as would blacks and other minorities...
...growing similarities between Europeans have enabled investigators for the first time to draw a sketch of the composite Euroman. In a study commissioned by the Reader's Digest, 24,000 adult Europeans in 16 countries were surveyed in 1969 by leading research firms on the Continent. The results showed that Euroman is roughly 34, married and has 1.5 children. He is employed by a factory or company that has 50 or more employees. In addition to sizable social benefits, he earns about $50 a week in take-home pay. He quit school at 16, but he speaks one other...
London's Fleet Street, the home of most of Britain's national dailies and once the newspaper capital of the world, has fallen on hard times. Just how hard became apparent in March, when the tacky tabloid Daily Sketch (circ. 760,000) announced that it would cease publication. This month, the Sketch will be merged into the troubled Daily Mail (circ. 1,800,000), which turns tabloid this week in an effort to stay alive after 75 years as a standard-size sheet. As a result of the merger, 270 journalists and 1,400 production workers will lose...
Fight or Fold. Some of Fleet Street's newer and more modern-minded proprietors, such as Canadian-born Thomson and Rupert Murdoch (TIME, Jan. 12, 1970), are trying to hold the line on budgets and resist union demands. Despite the folding of the Sketch, labor shows no signs of surrendering any of its prerogatives, even at the risk of putting thousands more out of work. Of the "popular" papers, the conservative Daily Express (circ. 3,500,000) and the pro-Labor Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000) remain profitable, although both have been losing readers lately to Murdoch...
...football pools, charities and all manner of shopkeepers suffered. Britain's Save the Children Fund, which helps needy youngsters in 46 countries, estimated that the strike had cost it $180,000. Britain's newspapers lost nearly $12 million in advertising: two of them, the ailing Daily Sketch and Daily Mail, announced their proposed merger-a long-discussed union doubtless hastened by the strike. Sutton & Sons, a seed company that does its business by mail, puts its daily loss at $24,000. Littlewoods, the huge football-pools outfit...