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...national game of kani politiki (making politics). A fixture of the scene in an Athens café or in any village taverna is at least one Greek spread over five chairs (a prop for each arm, one for each foot and one to sit on), waiting for his vari gliko (strong, sweet coffee), and noting on the back of a box of cigarettes this list: Populists 62, Liberals 62, Union of the Center 46, Social Democrats 34, Union of the Left 11, Unionists 6. These are the main political parties, with the number of seats that they hold in Parliament...
...affected) managed to get out token issues by makeshift methods. The New Statesman & Nation (TIME, Sept. 4), normally a comfortable 24 pages, squeaked out eight pages by photostated typewriting. The Economist, like many strikebound U.S. papers in the last few years (TIME, Dec. 1, 1947 et seq.), used Vari-Typing to produce a makeshift, 16-page issue for its 107th anniversary. It tartly warned the printers: "Union leaders would do well to observe that it is possible to get along without any compositors...
...bought the afternoon Times, a peppy, popular and moneymaking tabloid competing with John S. Knight's Daily News and Hearst's Herald-American. Six months later, under the impact of the Chicago printers' strike, the Sun and Times were merged into a Vari-Typed 24-hour tabloid...
...surprise of the printers, and most newsmen, the strike did not cripple Chicago papers; they went over to Vari-Type without missing a day (TIME, April 25). By last week, even Randolph recognized that Taft-Hartley would not be repealed soon, and that VariType had him licked. He settled for a contract that did lip service to the ban on closed shops, without disrupting the union's monopoly...
...Graphotype has a standard typewriter keyboard, and letters can be punched directly onto a metal plate heavy enough to stand up under the pressure of the stereotype machine that makes the "mats" or molds for the lead plates for the presses. This saves time by eliminating photoengraving used by Vari-Type...