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...held by the Newspaper Guild, biggest (8,500 New York members) but weakest of the ten newspaper unions. That date is one of the Guild's few real power levers: it comes just a few days before national, state and local elections, when readership interest is at a peak; moreover, it marks the beginning of the Christmas advertising season, when publishers earn a hefty 25% of their yearly income. In trying to move in on the Guild's date, Powers is plainly trying to undercut his fellow union. And it speaks for the haplessness of the Guild that...
...Know What's Coming Off Next, a play that unfortunately contained its entire essence in the title and was never professionally produced. But now Kopit has prepared a new script for production next month off-Broadway, and Dad-wise he is only half a dozen picas off the peak. The new play, scheduled to go into Greenwich Village's Theatre de Lys, is called Asylum or What the Gentlemen Are Up To Not to Mention the Ladies...
...players complain of his cruelty, hinting darkly that he has driven a musician or two into emergency mental care. Others feel that he is so coldly unresponsive to their feelings that he pushes them past the point of artistic aspiration, rehearsing so much that they pass their peak before concert time. "If you really want to hear how good we are, come to rehearsal," says a Cleveland violinist...
...usual. Capital spending by business, one of the prime necessities of an economic upturn, has yet to increase significantly beyond its 1957 level. Government spending will probably be held down by the sharp political reaction to the threat of a large federal deficit. Industrial production has slid off the peak it reached last September, and in January just managed to equal December's performance. Any strong economic advance in 1963 will have to originate somewhere else, and many economists feel that the consumer is the only one left to start...
...Niland's prosperity collapsed. Since 1956 the number of tomato growers in the area has plunged from 300 to 28. Cars, trucks and farm equipment were abandoned by their owners, are now rusting into worthless junk. One of Niland's remaining tomato farmers recalls that during the peak of the season he used to put $20,000 a week into the bank. Now, even the bank is closed...