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...earlier stories on election fraud, got a break last spring when he learned of a vacant patronage job at the election board. Of 200 positions, only four were for Republicans, including the $20-a-day clerk's post. To fill it Bliss needed an "inside man" at the Trib, one who would not be recognized by city officials. He chose William Mullen, 27, who has only limited reporting experience. "His chief asset," says Bliss, "is that he is a very low-key but very alert...
Sponsored by a Republican acquaintance of Bliss, Mullen applied for the job under his own name, neglecting only to tell the commissioners' chairman, Stanley T. Kusper Jr., that he was a Trib employee. He went to work last April and soon satisfied his suspicious Democratic co-workers that he was on the level. Finally he got access to the office vault and old ballot applications (the slips signed by voters just before entering the booth). Mullen found an apparent forgery almost immediately, one so obvious that "it almost knocked me off my chair." It was only the first...
...broadly relevant to readers in the 70 countries it now reaches, however, the Trib must be edited to seem as if it has no local base. Homey coverage is anathema to Weiss. To report on New York City's last mayoral election, for instance, he ignored the voluminous file of the New York Times and published the Washington Post's version instead; the Post reporter "told in a few stories all you needed to know about it in Neuilly or Oslo." Yet Weiss can occasionally use his own brand of enterprise. During last December's Nixon-Pompidou...
Gilded Bird. Deadlines are a problem because of the intricate truck-train-plane system that hustles copies around the world. Distribution accounts for an astonishing 25% of the Trib's total production costs. The per-copy price is high, ranging from 28? in Paris to 75? in Tokyo, because most papers must be shipped out by air freight or chartered plane. Advertising rates are astronomical; it costs as much to place an ad in the Trib as in the Washington Post, which has more than four times the circulation. Yet there is no shortage of advertisers or readers. Nowadays...
Prosperity is a relatively new fact of life at the Trib. For much of its history, it was a red-ink case, belying the efficacy of the owls with which Founder Bennett decorated the paper's original Paris office as a good-luck fetish. But the Trib has been solidly profitable since 1968, and an enormous owl still holds the place of honor in its offices. Appropriately, the metal bird is gilded...