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...newspaper heart to the new President. Whether from relief because the death of Kennedy proved a survivable U.S. tragedy, or whether British newspapers took their cues from a favorable U.S. press, they have been extravagant in their praise. Kennedy was only three weeks dead when the London Sunday Telegraph predicted that "Kennedy's name in the history books may well appear as little more than a footnote in the massive chapter on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson...
...company, yet it often feels misunderstood. Few companies are more conservative; none are more creative. It has grown huge by paying attention to little things-little efficiencies, little economies, little people. It is that ubiquitous firm whose business is talk and whose product is the telephone: the American Telephone & Telegraph...
...Dancer, E. P. Taylor's Canadian-bred colt that won the Derby? Lucky, they said. Too small, they said. On the day of the race, the New York Journal-American published its handicappers' selections, and only one out of twelve picked the Dancer to win. The Morning Telegraph was only slightly more encouraging: one out of eight. A well-known trainer went so far as to predict that Northern Dancer "won't even be on the board when the race is over...
...remains a newspaper thoroughly conscious of its stature and firmly rooted in Britain's Establishment: the government, the nobility, the ruling class. A recent survey showed that 70% of the names in Who's Who read the Times, as against only 43% for the second-ranking Daily Telegraph. "The Times is a record," said Sir William in a recent policy statement. "It has a duty not only to its readers of today but to those a century hence." And under Sir William, to resume thundering...
...paradoxical reason for the strike orgy is the thriving Australian economy, which produces more than 2,000 new jobs a month but not the 2,000 workers to fill them. The result, says Sydney's Sunday Telegraph, "is the feeling among certain trade unions that full employment provides the excuse for tactics of disruption." In February, 40 boilermakers struck one company because they could not get fish and chips for their Friday lunch, and last month 300 iron workers walked off a job at the Sydney engineering works of Tulloch, Ltd. because management would not unlock a door...