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...automated its neolithic production processes and spun off four new suburban editions. Sulzberger has also injected new life into the newspaper's parent New York Times Co., which embraces nine smaller dailies, four weeklies, six magazines (including Us, circ. 500,000, a four-month-old imitator of Time Inc.'s PEOPLE), two broadcast stations, three book publishers and part of three Canadian Paper mills. Once an institution more interested in public service than profit, the New York Times Co. is now on Wall Street's goodbuy lists. After several years of see-saw profits (net income was $13.6 million...
Like the New York Times, would-be use papers from the nighty New York News (circ. 2 million, the nation's largest) to the Albuquerque Journal (circ. 75,000) are launching how-to-do-it, where-to-get-it supplements. Papers that have had such news print service stations for years are allowing them more space and promoting them more heavily...
...Democratic primary for mayor: "If we go easy on the looters, we are obliterating the moral distinction between them and the vast majority of poor people who are law-abiding." As an alternative to prison, the New York Amsterdam News, the nation's largest secular black weekly (circ.: 67,000), suggested that the looters be given "a year of hard labor in the streets," rebuilding the stores they devastated...
...HORIZON (circ. 98,000; single copy, $2.50) has been around since 1958, but underwent such a face lift this year that any resemblance to the old, hardcover, quarterly coffee-table sampler of art and high culture is coincidental. The new Horizon will be a soft-cover monthly as of September, and light-years more lively. Artist Andrew Wyeth's naked Virgin was the cover of the May issue, and Dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov and Christine Sarry are whooping it up on the next issue. Inside the magazine are heavily illustrated essays on such trendy topics as discothèques, women...
...have wide impact. A column on Colorado's "sunset law," which requires a yearly re-evaluation of spending programs, prompted legislators in eight other states to introduce similar measures. Peirce also dispenses local anesthetic for painful civic problems through regular articles in the fact-packed National Journal (circ. 3,200), an authoritative Government-watching weekly he helped launch in 1969, which is one of the nation's most expensive publications (yearly subscription...