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Those unfamiliar with the field may suspect that magazine publishers are simply crying wolf, that they could, if necessary, pass the extra cost on to readers or advertisers. But in an era of rising costs, many readers are unwilling to absorb a disproportionate hike in price. As every circulation manager can testify, a steep increase in subscription rate invariably means a lowering of circulation. Yet it is the size of their marketplace that permits America's big magazines to assemble large, highly skilled staffs and broad research and technical facilities and to produce quality editorial material at low cost...
...case from state to federal court. The basis of that request was that the restraining order was founded in the federal wage-price freeze. HSWOC argued that the negotiation for higher wages was not in conflict with the terms of the wage-price freeze if the actual wage hike would not go into effect until after the freeze had ceased...
...Americans get the opportunity to have their eyes opened by such a hike. The painter's vision can nonetheless be shared, reasons a New York artist named Alan Gussow. Backed by a leading environmental group, Friends of the Earth, he has just produced a handsome coffee-table book entitled A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land (Saturday Review Press; $27.50). It juxtaposes 67 American landscapes, painted from the 16th century to the present, with a description of what moved each artist to select the scene. The result is astonishingly successful; no careful reader should...
Meanwhile, Cahaly's Market yesterday revoked its hike in the price of out of town newspapers. Cahaly said that an alleged representative of his newspaper distributor informed him last Sunday of a rise in the distribution cost. Cahaly went along with the Cambridge-wide 5 per cent rise in price. He later learned, however, that distribution cost had not gone up. Cahaly said that since the sale of out of town newspapers is not too important to 15 cents...
...Monday, following the price hike, Sheldon Cohen, president of Out of Town News, attributed the cost rise to the competition of hawkers and the burdens of high overhead for newsstands...