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Like most conglomerates, Media General, Inc. has been concentrating on acquisitions. It has picked up the Newark Evening News and four smaller papers to add to its original pair in Richmond. Now it is taking a new tack, creating rather than buying a paper. Crammed with charts and up-to-the-minute analyses of 3,250 stocks, the 72 pages of Media General Financial Daily consist almost entirely of figures. They amount to a sort of stock-market racing form. The price: a dollar...
Fighting Strikes. Donnahoe set out on a shopping spree and bought the Tampa Times and Tribune in Florida, the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel in North Carolina, as well as the Newark Evening News. Other acquisitions included a television station in Tampa and a cable-TV system in Fredericksburg, Va. Most of Media General's properties are profitable, but labor difficulties have dogged Donnahoe in Richmond and Newark...
...Fitzpatrick, whose union has been negotiating with the city for a new contract in place of the expired one for eight months: "I think most ordinary people know that the few extra dollars they got were just being taken away by price increases." Striking Gunter David of the Newark Evening News had an unself-centered point of view: "We just happened to get caught in the middle of the situation, but if we hadn't been on strike I would have said fine to the freeze...
Meanwhile, state and federal health authorities identified the soup as the source of the poison and ordered the recall of all products prepared by Bon Vivant Soups, Inc. of Newark, N.J. The task is proving complicated. The company processes 4,000,000 cans of food a year-mostly soup-under its own name plus 34 other labels. Some of the cans bearing such well-known brand names as Gristede's, S.S. Pierce and Marshall Field are in fact Bon Vivant products...
...writings of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky. But why complicate the issue and disrupt Jones' totalitarian fantasies about white evil and righteous black revenge? At certain levels of his struggle to spread black cultural consciousness, hyperbole and distortion may be necessary. Jones' energetic campaigning for Kenneth Gibson, Newark's first black mayor, indicates that he is well aware of the ways in which real political power is gained and wielded. As for the rhetoric of provocation and hate, perhaps it is wisest to let it blow over and await an invitation to play Ping Pong...