An actress strolled into a CBS television studio in Manhattan last week, eyed a motley crew of amateur technicians assembled for rehearsal of her daytime serial. "Which one of you," she asked facetiously, "is Mr. Paley?" CBS's Board Chairman William S. Paley was not there to lend a hand with the show, but he might have been. In eight cities across the U.S. where CBS owns TV and radio stations, some 1,300 members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers had walked out, abandoning cameras, microphone booms, control panels and projectors. Quipped a studio wag: "CBS now means the...
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