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...howls. Of burly build and mercurial temper, the bearded Mingus sometimes grew violent onstage when faced by inattentive audiences and became increasingly angered over treatment of blacks in the U.S., especially musicians. "Don't call me a jazz musician," he once complained. "The word jazz means nigger, discrimination, second-class citizenship, the back-of-the-bus bit!" Too crippled by disease to perform during his final year, Mingus nevertheless composed the music for an album by Joni Mitchell...
...cost of paper and ink. The new LIFE is priced at $1.50 a copy, whether purchased at a newsstand or through the mail, and Whittingham expects that circulation revenue alone will now "do a pretty good job" of covering the magazine's operating expenses. Furthermore, the burden of soaring second-class postal rates will be lightened by greater emphasis on newsstand sales. At the weekly LIFE'S termination, some 96% of its circulation went to mail subscribers and only 4% to newsstands. LIFE now in tends to sell only about 30% of its copies through the mail and about...
Women may have won that symbolic flight at Michigan; however at all too many schools they are still slighted, still second-class citizens. At the urging of HEW, for instance, the University of Georgia has started to make amends for a program that spent about $1,000 on women's athletics in 1973. The figure is now up to $120,000 (vs. the men's $2.5 million), but the indignities remain. Item: male golfers receive an unlimited supply of balls, while the women are given one per competitive round. Says Liz Murphey: "Sometimes the guys give the girls some just...
...rate increases. By the end of May, the service will raise mailing costs enough to push some businesses into lifting their prices more and sooner than they otherwise would have done. For all classes of mail, the rise voted last week by the Postal Rate Commission averages 25.5%. First-class postage goes from 13? to 15? (vs. 6? as recently as 1971). The cost of second-class mail for magazines and newspapers will jump 29.6%. The minimum rate for mailing a 2-lb. package parcel post will leap more than...
...potential subscribers; now it may solicit fewer. Says Financial Vice President Louis Isidora: "It costs us as much to mail as to print the stuff We have a fixed number of dollars to work with. If postage goes up, something has to go down." Publishers fear that rises in second-class mailing rates will force some magazines to stop printing...