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editors are chosen because they're good editors, not because they're personnel managers and most editors are terrible personnel managers. They're mean, irrational, thoughtless, probably anti-feminist. They have no concern about whether somebody works till four o'clock in the morning, “My God! She's not in at ten next morning.” All those things. All of those accumulated into real battle lines. Was it around 1970?

Well, there's--

When was the strike?

There was a near strike in '67, and there was an eighteen day strike in '76. And the Women's suit was '70.

Yeah, that's right. Well, the women's suit was probably justified, and was part and parcel of the whole issue. We tried and tried and tried. Management tried and tried and tried to get editors to manage better. They resisted our blandishments, our threats, and everything that we tried. One of the famous, if apocryphal, and I don't think it was apocryphal cases was on a closing on Time. Henry Grunwald who's a big opera fan left the office at five thirty to put on his white tie, went to the opera and then came back at midnight in full splendor to close the magazine. You can imagine. [laughter] Henry, like many other editors, liked to keep all his options opened until the last minute. That would mean that there might be thirty people working on five stories of which