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...York Herald Tribune was mercifully killed after a 20-year illness for which there was no longer any cure. Cursed by a second 114-day strike in three years, the Trib's owners examined its future. The pre-strike circulation of 303,000 seemed likely to slip to 200,000, half their break-even point. Advertising would certainly decline; editorial staffers had already deserted in droves. There was little of tangible value left, except the paper's past great reputation...
...these attacks had not disappeared, last Saturday; it was merely frustrated by a Boston Police department, which, embarrassed by a conspicuous absence in front of be court, provided the march with heavy protection. In fact, wherever the march went, local police covered well. But it took only one slip to inform that the demonstrators were no more welcome in August than in April: on Monday the patrol care observing the walk disappeared momentarily outside of Marshfield, allowing 40 men and teenagers to set upon the demonstrators, briefly beat them, and destroy a number of their signs...
...bent needles. While an LP is designed to last for 75 playings, a tape will last five times that long. The new eight-track cartridge (price: from $4.95 to $10.95) is about the size and weight of a paperback book, requires no threading or rewinding. The driver can easily slip it into the dashboard player without taking his eyes off the road; it plays through four speakers-usually mounted in the front and rear doors-without interference from bumpy roads, tunnels, bridges or commercials. President Johnson has stereotape players in his airplane and most of his cars, favors dance music...
Since the Berlin Wall went up in August 1962, at least 69 persons have died attempting to scale it. But 3,510 refugees have managed to slip through it, tunnel under it or scramble over the top. Three weeks ago, work began on a higher, sleeker model. Virtually complete last week was a new 250-yd. section near the old Reichstag. Atop the 12-ft. structure, engineers placed lengths of circular pipe denying any potential climber a handhold...
Petticoat Slip. Such pseudoscientific testing of off-the-sidewalk critics has a great and growing impact on network programming decisions. Actress Chris Noel was dropped from CBS's forthcoming comedy series Pistols and Petticoats, with the explanation that she "pretested" badly. Every time blonde and buxom Chris came on-camera during the screening, there was an inexplicable plunge in the graph line that records the composite reaction of the button pushers. Similarly, negative readings caused the jettisoning of an entire subplot from Pistols and Petticoats, and the replacement of ten other projected series performers. The previewers have even assumed...