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Teamsters v. Teamsters. Detroit has turned into a comedy of strikes. No sooner had the Press and News stopped publishing than three interim papers sprang up, ready to reap lush profits. Interestingly enough, the Teamsters, who had called the strike in the first place, were intimately involved in the publication of two of the new papers. All went swimmingly until the Teamsters' local demanded the same stiff wage increase from the interim papers that they had asked of the dailies: a 10% hike over two years, plus a $46 benefit package. Teamsters wanted the papers to hire...
...dollar-bolstering campaign that President Johnson sprang on an unsuspecting world during the first day of 1968 was conceived in secrecy worthy of a major military maneuver. Even as Johnson was winging around the globe last month, cables were flashing between Washington and his silver-and-blue jet, Air Force One. In all, about 50 people - from the White House, the Commerce, Defense and Treasury Departments, the Federal Reserve and the Council of Economic Advisers-worked on parts of the package, but only ten or so knew its full dimensions. When the finishing touches were finally completed, newsmen were summoned...
...fortress held at siege by change." Then Thomson arrived. "On a darkening evening last January, anyone looking across from Blackfriars Station to the lighted windows in Printing House Square might have been pardoned for imagining he saw the whole edifice down on its haunches ready to spring." It sprang. "Times correspondents were told to take off their masks and come out into the open, bylined and vulnerable to praise and blame instead of sitting in oracular anonymity...
...seemed like a rerun of 1964. Once again, Detroit's two strike-prone newspapers were closed down. As before, contract negotiations had been proceeding fairly smoothly when one union got too greedy and stopped talking. Once again, interim papers quickly sprang up. The question was: Would the strike that began on Nov. 16 last as long as the previous one: 134 days...
...solicited his enlarged curiosity for the last half-year. He thought there was rather too much brick about it, but it was buttressed, cloistered, turreted, dedicated, superscribed, as he had never seen anything; though it didn't look old, it looked significant; it covered a large area and sprang majestic into the winter air. It was detached from the rest of the collegiate gronup and stood in a grassy triangle...