Word: anti-trust
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...University then issued a statement opposing the plan for two reasons: "The University must reserve to itself the right to decide whether and when to telecast Harvard football games," and "Legal council has questioned the legality of the NCAA program," under the Sherman anti-trust...
...courts have never faced the issue. The best legal minds in the country divided on the subject, and after some deliberation Princeton decided the NCAA program was clean. The Supreme Court has ruled that professional baseball is not subject to the anti-trust law because it is not a business. But professional baseball is not collegiate football...
...More anti-business talk came from Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, who not only fought a desperate battle to keep private power from building in federal-power areas, but accused the Justice Department of writing a "gigantic brief for nonenforcement of the anti-trust laws." Kefauver repeatedly railed against "conflict of interest," thus helped the Democratic campaign to require businessmen serving without compensation in the Government to list in the Federal Register the names of all corporations or partnerships in which they own shares...
MERGER CURBS are in the wind at the Federal Trade Commission. Chairman Edward F. Howrey is considering asking Congress for new powers to require all corporations to file preliminary merger plans with the Commission. If the merger appears to violate the Clayton anti-trust act, the Commission will issue a stop-order, pending a court trial...
...general declined any offers to televise their football games. Last fall's Yale game "could have been sold," felt said. The offer was turned down, however, on the advice of the University's legal counsel, who thought that the N.C.A.A's policy of national television control might violate anti-trust laws...