London's Beaverbrook Papers Sold
Date: 01 July 1977
By ROY REED Special to The New York Times
Roy Special
3 Beaverbrook newspapers, London Daily Express, Sunday Express and Evening Standard, are taken over by Trafalgar House Investments, owner of Cunard Line, London's Ritz Hotel and other interests; purchase price was about $23.3-million; Sir Max Aitkin, son of late Lord Beaverbrook, is expected to retain position in new orgn; Victor Matthews, managing dir of Trafalgar House, will become new chmn and chief exec of Beaverbrook Newspapers (S)
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Village Voice Employees Vote To Join a Local of District 65
Date: 01 July 1977
Employees at Village Voice vote to join publishing local of Dist 65 of Distributive Workers of Amer (S)
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SELF-CENSORSHIP OF MEDIA IS PLANNED BY RUMANIANS
Date: 01 July 1977
Rumanian Communist Party's Central Com shifts from govt censorship to self-censorship of nation's media; Pres Ceausescu comments; Rumanians hope abolition of centralized censorship law will stimulate literature, art and journalism (S)
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Carey Asks That Police And News Organizations Not Use the Term 'Mafia'
Date: 01 July 1977
Gov Carey, acting on request from Order of the Sons of Italy in Queens, calls upon news orgns and members of NYS criminal justice system to refrain from using term Mafia; execs of major news orgns intend to make no changes in their policies, which, in gen, are to use term Mafia in reference to specific element of organized crime; NYC Police Deputy Comr Francis J McLoughlin says dept does not use term (S)
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Dow Jones Gives Up on National Observer, Will Cease Publication
Date: 01 July 1977
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
Natl Observer (pub), published by Dow Jones & Co, will cease publication with July 4 issue; Dow Jones pres and chief exec Warren H Phillips comments (S)
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TV: Turn To Soft And Silly
Date: 30 June 1977
By JOHN J. O'CONNOR
John O'CONNOR
J J O'Connor revs news specials Mr Rooney Goes to Work, featuring essayist Andrew A Rooney (CBS), and Now (NBC); illus; program personnel noted
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House Defeats Move to Roll Back $12,900 Pay Rise by 241-181 Vote
Date: 30 June 1977
By MARTIN TOLCHIN Special to The New York Times
Martin Special
HR, 241-181, defeats move to roll back $12,900 pay rise for Cong and other high Govt officials; Speaker O'Neill and all other Dem leaders, as well as Repub leaders, campaigned against roll back amendment, which was sponsored by Repub Repr Charles E Grassley; HR majority leader Jim Wright, noting news media criticism of pay rise, claims Congressmen would be making $20,000 more than they now do if they had recd same increases newsmen have recd since '69 (M)
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