Advertising as liberty's vestige and economic freedom
A Batten Barton Osborn executive argues advertising sustains free markets and media, funding networks, papers, and magazines. He contends advertising enables political and religious access, compares it to press freedom, and likens its role to Churchill’s view of democracy, despite cost and excesses.
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America
Tom Dillon
Batten Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc
United States
Dillion
Raiio
Dillon
Pennsylvania Evening Post
Winston Churchill
Bribery Scandals Tap Corporate Couriers Europe Paying Off Officials
Federal probes target corporate bagmen across Ashland Oil Exxon Gulf Oil Lockheed Merck Northrop Searle Tenneco United Brands as penalties loom for paying foreign officials. Investigations span SEC Justice Customs and a network of multinationals with billions routed overseas, using 5 000 dollar reporting rule to build indictments.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
Baksheesh, Cumshaw
Cold Cast
Brazil
Colombia
France
Gabon
Iran
Italy
Japan
Malaysia
Netherlands
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
South Korea
Taiwan
Turkey
West Germany
Ashland Oil
Burroughs
Exxon
Gulf Oil
Lockheed
McDonnell Douglas
Merck
Northrop
G.D. Searle
Tenneco
United Brands
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC
Frank Church
D.idaho
Ben Rosenthal
D.-N.y
Justice Dept
Customs Service
Special Prosecutor's Office
United States
Federal
Internal Revenue Service
Bob Hope
Paramount
Texaco
Hope
Mike Viner
Labor Dept
Michael Moskow
Department
Interior Dept
Thomas Kleppe
Tom Cresswell
Federal Aviation Administration
Arronautic Center
Oklahoma City
FAA
James Dow
Cresswell
Editorial argues Olympic ideals damaged by politics
The piece critiques the 1976 Montreal Games for politicized boycotts and nationalistic tensions, noting Canada's Taiwan ban and New Zealand rugby ties with apartheid South Africa. It laments athletes used as pawns, urges removing governments from the Games, and recalls the ancient Olympics as a time of peaceful competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierre de Coubertin
Munich
Montreal
Canada
Taiwan
Republic of China
International Olympics Committee
New Zealand
South Africa
IOC
Robert Muldoon
Greece
Service price surge abates in second quarter 1976
AP analysis notes service inflation eased in the April June quarter after sharp rises in 1975 and early 1976. The 5.3 percent gain followed 9.8 percent in prior quarters, with special factors like New York subway fares 46.4 percent contributing. Morgan Guaranty cites auto insurance and postal rate shifts as key drivers since mid-1975.
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John Cunniff
NEW York
Morgan Guaranty Survey
Inflation and religion mix in early American conflicts
The World Almanac highlights a religious spectrum during the Revolution era with Lutherans Congregationalists Baptists and Presbyterians favoring independence while Friends opposed wars and Anglicans faced royal ties. It notes rising costs in housing repair recreational services and property insurance with possible inflation easing overall, yet hospital and medical charges and gas bills remain upward pressures.
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Peter Muhlenberg
Woodstock
England
Society of Friends
On This Date in History August 2 1976 Highlights
Highlights include Hitler becoming dictator in 1934 after Hindenburg's death, Hudson Bay explored in 1610, Germany invading France Belgium and Luxembourg in 1914, Einstein’s 1939 atomic program warning, Nixon’s 1959 Warsaw reception, and Dean's 1974 Watergate sentence. Also birthdays for James Baldwin and Myrna Loy and a note on the Declaration of Independence signatures.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Paul von Hindenbrug
Henry Hudson
Hudson Bay
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Russia
Calvin Collidge
Black Hills
South Dakota
Albert Einstein
Franklin Roosevelt
U.S
Richard Nixon
Warsaw
Poland
White House
John Dean
Supreme Soviet
Kremlin
Moscow
Alexei Kosygin
Senate
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Ford
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Helsinki
Finland
James Baldwin
Myrna Loy
Alway
Thomas Brown
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
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Don Oakley
Liberty
Asuine
Merry
By Gill Fox
Neaing Threll
Arnold
Editorial
John Tower
D.C
Lloyd Bentsen Jr
Richard C. White
Rayburn
del Rio
New Braunfels
San Angelo
San Antonio
Austin
W.E
Pete’’ Snelson
Capital Building
Texas
Dick Slack
Pecos
5Th & Cypress
State Board of Education
M.L. Brockette
Texas Education Agency
E. 11Th St
Woodrow W. Bean
el Paso
O’ferrall Pauly
Texas Press Association
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