Perils of politics in ITT merger and GOP ties
Editorial questions if ITT used political favors to ease antitrust hurdles for its Hartford Fire merger. It cites divestiture from assets valued around 1 billion and notes Atty. Gen. Mitchell’s political role. The piece warns of potential impropriety when a political attorney general wields influence on enforcement.
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VFT
Justice Department
ITT
Hartford Fire Insurance Company
Hartford Fire
Richard Kleindienst
John Mitchell
GOP
Atty
Gen. Mitchell
Robert Kennedy
Nixon
Mitchell
Madison Avenue teams finds sun shine in phone survey
BBDO highlights a telephone survey showing the average American as contented, with the happiest group a religious married woman aged 18 to 34 in the middle income bracket. Women overall report 36.6 percent very happy, men 28.1 percent, prompting a shift toward addressing unhappy males with future ads and a Rams 49ers game commercial break.
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BBDO
Plastic trees bloom on Los Angeles County expressway
Editors debate a new plastic landscape in Los Angeles County after road workers install 1.7 miles of plastic evergreens along a center strip. Officials tout waterless, perpetual greenery, while critics warned plastic parks with fake birds and insects signal excessive artificiality and moral concerns.
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Joyce Kilmer
Los Angeles County
California
L.A
Sonneborn Denies Impropriety In New York Rate Case
John Sonneborn argues in reply to Jack Anderson that Pacific Telephone faced normal proceedings during the New York Public Service Commission rate increase for NY Telephone Co. He notes hearings in four cities, 27 days, 5,200 pages of testimony, 118 exhibits, and 107 witnesses with 87 opposing higher rates.
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New York Telephone Co
New York Public Service Commission
Betty Furness
Richard L. Ottinger
John O'Sullivan
Grass Roots
The
Price Commission
C. Jackson Grayson
Commission
New York
PSC
H. W. Froelich
At&t
Washington
New York City
Froelich
White House reconsiders DIA purge and arms sales policy
Washington moves to slash Defense Intelligence Agency staff amid White House dissatisfaction with DIA reporting. The purge, ordered by Joint Chiefs and linked to budget cuts, risks weakening foreign intelligence. Separately, U.S. officials scrutinize Kuwait arms purchases, urging a DoD survey of Kuwait’s military needs before possible sales.
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Washington
White House
Pentagon
Defense Intelligence Agency
Bennett
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Nixon
Central Intelligence Agency
Capitol Hill Friends
DIA
Latin America
CIA
FBI
William Rogers
Department of Defense
U.S
Rogers
Kuwait
Labor and ecologists clash over environment and jobs
AFL-CIO News attacks conservationists as extremists while acknowledging labor divisions and the need for pollution reduction and new jobs. The piece argues unions should weigh proposals, seek practical solutions, and support cleaner transport, water, and sewage systems to address air and water pollution.
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Greensboro Daily News
Jack Anderson
John Sonneborn
Pacific Telephone
Perts
Arlington Hall
D. W. Bennett
Free World
America
United States
Pakistan
Persian Gulf
Merry
Afl-Cio
Conservation Movement
Labor
Labor Federation
Dustry
Federation
Fie
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