{"value"=>"<p>Starting in October 1966 with the formation of the Committee on the Future, chaired by Lester Markel, the <span class=\"title\">Times</span> undertook an intense planning effort. All phases of its operation were involved: advertising and marketing, circulation and readership, budgeting and cost control, news and editorial content, labor relations, plant and production, and existing and anticipated technological developments. AMR was the News Department's principal representative on the Committee on the Future, and guided the efforts of the News, Editorial and Sunday Departments through the mid-1970's. During 1968, the Committee's work was taken over by several task forces coordinated by the Management Services Department, and gradually more formal planning procedures and techniques were adopted, with the help of the American Management Association. These folders contain memoranda and reports on task force and committee meetings, problems to be solved and proposed solutions, computer models, analyses and forecasts, and schedules and agendas of meetings (notably the Glen Cove meeting of 1974, the Hamilton meetings of 1972 and 1973, and the Tarrytown and Sterling Forest meetings of 1968). Of special interest are the reports and recommendations made by the several groups in the \"Content Study\" of the News, Editorial and Sunday Departments in 1971-1973 and by the subcommittees of the Committee of the Future in 1967-1968. Note that some but by no means all of these are filed, also, under the specific subjects covered.</p>"}