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Operation Match, the "computer dating service" which a good deal of humorous interest at Harvard last Spring, is falling into a financial hole.
...York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff was tearfully threatening to shut down her paper unless she could save money by using a computerized typesetter. Bertram Powers, local boss of the International Typographical Union, was adamantly demanding 50% of any wage savings. Between the two, they were generating rumors that Manhattan might soon lose another daily. Then, after a week's trial run with the computer at the Post, Bert Powers went off on vacation. The paper went back to its old-fashioned Linotype machines, and Mrs. Schiff, apparently accepting at least a temporary defeat, announced the negotiations had been adjourned...
Had the problem simply been kicked around until it disappeared? Hardly. New York's newspaper publishers insist that they must automate to survive. Of the town's six dailies, only the Times and the News are making money. Meanwhile, automation is either in operation or in the planning...
Rebellious Reporters. From California to Florida, composing rooms are humming and clicking to the tune of modern electronics. No longer must a printer justify lines by hand -expanding or contracting them to fit the width of a column. Nor need he worry about hyphenating words. Instead, a typist punches out...
While Mrs. Schiff and her fellow publishers bargain for the chance to introduce this kind of computer, the Los Angeles Times, for one, has already moved a step beyond. For a brief period it experimented with machines that allowed reporters to punch out their own tapes as they wrote their...