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After the Paar walkout that was heard round the world (TIME, Feb. 22), things looked bad for a while. General David Sarnoff, jeered the Herald Tribune's Columnist Art Buchwald, had ordered "NBC's First Territorial Lawyers' Brigade to surround Paar's house and dig in. All leaves of the Fourth Airborne Public Relations Division were canceled, and every vice president under the age of 70 was mobilized and armed with statements." Then Jack finally decided to take a vacation in Hawaii and Hong Kong-but for some reason, he went by way of Florida. Somehow...
Soon the human relations outfit had to make a public relations decision: Should the tape containing Paar's walkout and all the criticism of NBC be put on the air? It should, decided NBC, and to show how human it could be, it even invited the public to be sure to tune...
...promptly suggested that it might repair the cup. A conciliatory letter from President Kintner reminded Paar of the other people on his show who were affected by his walkout. "I hope you will think of all of them, Jack, and decide to come back to us." At the same time, NBC was insisting that it would hold Paar to his fiveyear, $200,000-a-year contract...
COPPER-STRIKE pact was agreed upon by Anaconda Co. and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, ending a 177-day walkout. Anaconda's settlement all but ended the strike, which shut down 80% of the industry. The three-year contract provides 4,785 Anaconda workers with hourly wage boosts from...
This month, hostilities broke out anew around California's Governor Edmund G. Brown, who also holds separate conferences. Forced to sit by while the pencil reporters got first crack, Los Angeles TV newsmen staged another walkout-to "Pat" Brown's speakable anguish. "You people have absolutely no right to do this," he cried. "I am the Governor of the state of California, and I have things to say to the people of California." In Massachusetts, Governor Foster Furcolo once carried segregation so far as to answer the same question four times-first for the pencil newsmen and then...