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...scapegoat. His standing has suffered a steady erosion, as illustrated last week by the loss of two historically safe Labor seats in three by-elections. His Foreign Secretary, George Brown, has proved a recurring source of embarrassment, as he did again by rudely accusing Sunday Times Publisher Lord Thomson of "great disservice to the country." Common Market entry seems as distant as ever; Charles de Gaulle has just hinted that he will veto Britain once more. No wonder Wilson was looking for a political diversion. Last week he found it in a surprising place: the House of Lords...
...eager to tangle with ten aggressive newspaper unions that had struck four times in the past five years and had helped kill five newspapers in that period. They are still resisting automation more relentlessly than any other unions in the U.S. Last week Britain's Lord Thomson, who owns nearly 50 papers in the U.S., admitted that he had been offered the dying WJT as a gift but had turned it down because of such "unreasonable union demands" as promotion by strict seniority in the editorial department...
...grass looks several shades greener in the Spring Term. There are a few courses for which it might be wise to save room. History 160c sounds like the course which brilliant, tough-minded Bernard Bailyn has always wanted to teach. It concerns the Emergence of the Liberal State. James Thomson will be teaching History 171b which treats American-Far Eastern Relations and will hit Vietnam. Thomson is a good talker who worked in the National Security Council on the Far East. And no Harvard Education is complete without a little James Joyce. Reuben Brower will discuss him and other English...
...dailies have the distinction of being afternoon papers in one-newspaper towns. That means they all make money - and are likely to continue to do so. For that reason, profits-conscious Thomson was willing to pay a hefty $75 million for them...
Affairs in Order. "We've known these people for years," says St. Clair Mc-Cabe, Thomson's general manager for North America, "but we never thought they'd sell." Brush-Moore sold because its owners were losing interest in the newspaper business and wanted to set their estate affairs in order. One group of stockholders tried to hold on to a few papers, but Thomson was adamant about getting them all. The only thing he did not get was the chain's one radio station, WHBC, in Canton; the 1912 Communications Act forbids an alien...