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By PIERCE LEHMBECK ee . | . x r % 1
NEW YORK (AP)-The = Her- ald Tribune, whose death was announced Monday, was a news- |*> paper with roots deep in United States history.
it was a giant of alism. At its worst, even is critics conceded it /was sprightly, entertaining, contro- versial. It was read by presidents and peapers..- fy et i" The work of great writers‘and |) g reporters graced its pages. (& The Herald Tribune was) formed in 1994 by the merger of The Herald, founded in 1835 by James Gordon Bennett. and) The Tribune, founded in 1841 by | Horace Greeley f Separately. and ve R | merged organ, The Herald and | -The Tribune developed some of | journalism’s most significant in- | novations. ; And some of journalism’s greatest names are ‘nseparably - woven into its history—Bennett, Greeley, Mark “Twin, Richard Harding Davis, Henry J. Ray- mond, Charles A.. Dana. ... . “Dr. Livingston, I presume.
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Dr. Stanley M. Livingston,
a explorer and missionary, ia The Herald, born May 6. 1835, was founded as a rival to the
‘ploneer penny paper, the morn- ing Sun. Bennett. then 40. had a,)
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‘ There was a wit, society gos- -etp, tersely expressed editorial ‘opinion and much foreign news fm Bennett's Herald. He had the
‘first financial page, gathering
_ and. editing the news of Wall
Street. himself. The Herald was the first pa-
‘ per to cover murder trials fully. In
those early days, when travel and communications still were difficult, The Herald was honored. for- {ts coverage of the. Mexican war. And it had 40 cor- respondents with the Union army in the U.S. Civil War. This poliey of full coverage eontinued after Bennett died in 1872 and he was succeeded: by his 31_-year - old son, James Gordon Jr. BM was the son who sent Stanley after Livingston,
into the. New York Herald Tribune, which died Monday in its 125th year, 114 days efter its last ication... a “(AP Wiréphoto)
‘Crosby “were widely-read eol- umnists. 4e]
The format was changed, and ibecame a’ source of discussion lamoh¥ newspaper men.
Sr., LEFT, was the founder of the New York Herald in 1835. | Six years later, Horace Gree- ‘ey. RIGHT, began publishing : the. Tribune in New York. The
sports section and entertain- ment section and. printed a weekly television magazine sup- plement. i
But the circulation slide con-
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tinued. In 1950, it had: been 345,- 423 daily and 633,364 Sunday; in 1960, 336,647 daily and 488,- 161. Sunday. i
lwas packaged, explained, inter- |
ipreted. It was digested on the first page* so that a reader jcould get a briefing of the day's
In September, 1957,” Oxford- jeducated John Hay. Whitney, }U.S. ambassador to Britain, in- | vested $1,200,000 In The Herald |
top events
for in depth details. But still circulation slid. In
| Tribune, ..and. he .was..civen_.aM.1965--its-last--full-- year of--pub-
toption to the end of 1958 to buy lication, it was down. to: 303,- |a controlling interest He _ ex- |179 daily and 360,876 Sunday. ercised that option Aug. 26, 1958. Advertising linage in 1965 was
|CHANGES MADE _ | less than one-third that of the
In what were to be The Her- jrival Times -and less than one- jald Tribune's last. eight years, ‘half that of the tabloid Dally ‘innovation. followed innovation. |News, the largest -— circulation Its ‘Sunday magazines featured |newspaper in the U.S. ie ‘contemporary writing and {fl-|. June 23, almost three months \lustration. Its writers were rec- to the day after the strike jognized as leaders in thetr against the World Journal Tri- jfields: Walter Kerr-on drama, |bune began, The Herald Trt- |Eugenfa Sheppard on fashion, bune formally closed its news {Walter Lippman and- the Alsops service. And -only~-recently
in a. few minutes, | then go to the various sections‘
t the helm when 0% politics and Red Smith on|Washington Post bought 48 per ~ oe “aa in -the great \sports. Art Buchwald and John ‘cent of its Paris Herald
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| ‘By PETER ARNETT | SAIGON (AP) — The bigger \the war in.South Viet Nam gets, ithe more sluggish and_ retiring the South Vietnamese’ Army
3 seems to become,
In terms%f new fighting con- cepts and modern weaponry, the South Vietnamese’ Army has guerrillas. The burden of fight- | fallen behind the Viet Cong. guerrillas. The burden of fight- |ing the war has fallen more and !more on American shoulders | One of the aims when: major contingents of US. forces “were sent to -South Viet Nam_ last year was to secure base areas |so thatthe South Vietnamese LArmy could go ot and D he | Viet Cong. The ‘American troop | The trade department, moting Canadian participation ithrough the governments exhi- | bition commission, says ;Can- }adas nuclear industry is among | the most active in the world in | power development
“Canada has embarked on a program of power expansion that will see nuclear generating |capacity enlarged twenty-fold in | the next 20 years,” it says. | “This high rate of increase, with a projected 14,500,000 kilo- | watts of nuclear capacity to be jin operation by 1985, is one im-
portant measure of the high | State of advancement, strength
‘|and Vitality of-the Canadian in-
' clear industry.”’
, PRODUCE URANIUM yr Among the companies Joining in the exhibit are the three prin- cipal prodiicers’ and processors (of uranium ore, Crown-owned |Eldorado Mining and Refining Ltd... ahd privately-owned Dent son’ Mines Ltd: and Rio Tinto Canada Ltd.-Rio Algom.
Canadian subsidiaries” ot" U'S; firms, Canadian General Fiec- tric and Canadian Westinghouse- | There are also. consulting engi- neers Dilworth, Secord, Meag- her__and Associates Ltd , instru- ment...makers Nuilear Enter- prises Lid, and “heavy —“equip- |Ment manufacturers Borg-War- |ner Canada Ltd., Byron Jackson division. .
These and the other firms ‘in- | volved have worked closely with Crown-owned Atomic Energy .of
adian nuclear power tech- |miques as concentrating’ on heavy water reactors and- de
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Whitelaw Reid had become The Herald Tribune's editor two ars earlier, when he was 39. le tried to boost circulation with lively features and empha- news : :
>In his turn, Ogden Reid intro- duced. circulation, eontests, a »
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By JAMES NELSON | OTTAWA (CP) — Ten €ana- dian firms, including some big | subsidiaries of U.S. firms, have | joine the federal trade depart- ‘ment im telling Canadas. story im nuclear ‘energy to world at
‘In Telling Nuclear Story —
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, } The show, which opens Sept. |8, is the first International Nu- | clear Industries Fair which, like ’ Expo 67, has chosen a familiar- ity tax, Nuclex 66.
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| plants to reduce building costs.
_} "Canada’s “uniqtie™ concentra-
, tion on the heavy water concept | has- been. commercially vindi- jcated,’’ the trade department says in its brochure advertising Canada's participation- in Nu- _ clex 66. - it | “Electricity g e ner a ted-by heavy water reactors will soon be flowing at rates fully com- | petitive with those of other ther- ‘mal sources.’
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the South Vietnamese greater freedom of action, lessening their security dhity, Now the reverse -is_true. American- troops have—taken over. much of the real fighhng,
the South Vietnamese more guard duty: f South Vietnamese casualties
are taken mainly at the lowest level of the war, at hamlets and villages by the paramilitary forces who have. struggled for years to control a village cart track or a water hole
DO NOT SHOW SURGE * Casualties at this level have been consistently high for four _ ar’ r BS Trot great upsurge in the war.in the last year. The American cas- ualties reflect this
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American casualties are run-. ning almost one. half as many |” killed, but more Americans are | - wounded. The lower death. total may reflect faster medical aid |’ response by U.S. units.
There are few signs that the South Vietnamese army has im- proved to meet the high hopes of the U.S; advisory program that began in 1961,
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