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...sourdough-bread booths and flower store that ships California-grown daisies anywhere. Beauty salon (wash and cut, $12), two barbershops with showers ($2.25), saunas ($3.50), clothes pressing ($2 a suit). Animal shelter. Clinic with seven doctors open 24 hr., two fully equipped mini-ambulances, 250-bed hospital, morgue and pressroom ready for use in disaster. Overall: designed with people in mind...
...many upwardly mobile young journalists, a successful career is one that leads from the city-hall pressroom to the statehouse beat to a national reporting job in Washington. Neal Peirce got it all backward. He started at the top, as Washington-based political editor of a respected national magazine. Today he covers city hall and the statehouse...
...weather in New Delhi was seasonably mild last week, with temperatures mostly in the 70s. If Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had had her way, however, it would have been a lot hotter in the pressroom of the Indian Express (circ. 400,000), the flagship of India's largest newspaper chain. Reason: government officials tried a few weeks ago to rip out the paper's air-conditioning system and auction it off to satisfy a disputed tax bill. Only a last-minute court injunction saved Express workers from a daily steam bath...
...addition to the initial pressroom violence, the strike has been marked by beatings and threats to nonstrikers, and three shots were fired through the Post's office windows. Graham was burned in effigy at a union rally, and when she saw a photo of a placard reading PHIL...
...Pressroom Control. In its proposals for a new contract this year, the Post offered the pressmen a 25% increase in the basic wage in three years and a $400,000 bonus, to be divided among them. In return, the paper asked to be given back control of the pressroom. The union has refused. Last week the Post began hiring 140 permanent replacements for the pressmen, while a dozen or so strikers have accepted the Post's offer to return to work "as individuals." Company executives believe some of the unions may return to work as early as next month...