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...since 1953, middle-sized dailies today account for 39% of all the 57 million daily papers sold in the U.S.-and they are forging ahead at a steady 1% a year. They have also been hit less hard by spiraling costs than their metropolitan competitors. Most middle-tier dailies net between 8% and 12% a year, v. 3% to 5% for the prosperous big-city papers-and few of the big-city papers are truly prosperous. They also compete less fiercely for advertising than most metropolitan dailies, which not only charge lower line rates but must pay far more...
...metropolitan dailies. Many newspapers are prospering in spite of almost irresponsible mediocrity. But in a comparative survey last week, TIME correspondents across the U.S. found that in a majority of cases top national and international stories got substantially the same play in big cities and small. The middle-tier papers have also been quick to seize on such technological advances as color printing, tele-typesetters and cheap, fast methods that enable them to use as heavy photo coverage as most city dailies...
From the tiny glass box-"about twice the size of a telephone booth"-on the Grand Tier of Manhattan's musty old Metropolitan Opera House came a rich, familiar voice last week: "Good afternoon, opera lovers from coast to coast." To some 10 million of the radio audience, Milton Cross, 60, was making his soist opera broadcast and winding up his 25th season as announcer of ABC's Metropolitan Opera, radio's oldest and biggest spectacular...
There was time, too, for informal gaiety in Rome. St. Patrick's Day was Pat's birthday (44), and in a large sitting room of the Grand Hotel she had a party, puffed out 21 candles, cut a giant four-tier cake, received a basket of roses from Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi, and from the Nixon press party an ivory-handled umbrella...
Back in Washington, he reviewed several alternative plans prepared by the State Department's Policy Planning Staff. Three of these alternatives were: 1) U.S. adherence to the Baghdad Pact, which links the Northern Tier nations of Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and Turkey to Britain; 2) U.S. proposal of a "Middle East Charter" that would invite the area nations to subscribe to a statement of social and economic betterment for their peoples, with no reference to military considerations; 3) bilateral treaties between the U.S. and individual Arab states. Out of these policy papers Dulles borrowed some ideas, junked a great many...