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...chooses; last week's was the first on television in 13 months. A President, as Nixon noted, does not really need the press, but he can, in effect, switch the media on and off as he chooses. The candidate sitting in the White House can run a statesman's campaign above the battle-which is precisely what Richard Nixon intends...
...Averell Harriman, LL.D., retired statesman...
...battle for independence in 1923, and succeeded him as President in 1938. After 1950, when he was defeated for the presidency, Inönü continued to rule the Republican People's Party with an iron hand. Last week, at the age of 87, Turkey's elder statesman was finally forced into retirement...
...Yonkers Herald Statesman (47,852), long dubbed the "Sterile Hatesman" because of its boring and often narrow-minded tone, quickly got Head's O.K. for a series on Yonkers Mafiosi that the previous managers had prohibited. Heavily Italian Yonkers was outraged, and Herald Statesman Editor Barney Walters had his car windshield smashed eleven times, but the paper was suddenly worth reading again. These days Head's papers even endorse Democrats from time to time, which would have been heresy under the Macys, but individual editors must check with him first. To capture suburban readers on weekends...
Indefinite Expansion. The editorial benefits of common ownership can be considerable to individual papers. The Cocoa, Fla., Today (48,101) covers space shots with imagination and expertise for the whole chain, via the Gannett News Service. The Statesman in Boise has been filing with local insight for all papers on the recent Idaho mine disaster. The News Service circulates such group-wide features as an entertainment column from the San Bernardino Sun and a music column from the Times-Union. Small papers benefit from staff coverage by bigger ones and in turn serve as testing grounds for technical improvements that...