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Toward Simpler Cars. What can be done? Hart recommended that states start licensing mechanics, a move that might give motorists some protection against shoddy work. He also suggested that the Government might invoke antitrust laws against some auto-repair practices, notably that of charging higher rates for nonwarranty work. But most of the work is done at scattered, independent garages, which are hard to control. Spokesmen for them argue that drivers must be prepared to pay even higher fees if the shops are to attract and hold reliable mechanics...
...dairy owner who happens to be a Republican. What that land was really worth remains debatable. Ewald's brother contends it could scarcely have commanded $100; the county assessor put the value appreciably higher. Three years before the deal, Ewald's dairy had been involved in an antitrust case along with several other dairies and a union. Their plea was nolo contenders and they were each fined $3,000, more than half of the $5,000 maximum in a case of this kind. No where was there the slightest evidence that Humphrey had taken any special interest...
...General Motors' most pressing concerns is keeping Washington pacified. As the world's largest manufacturer, the company has long fretted over the possibility of antitrust action, even though it has taken over no domestic passenger-car firm for 50 years. Sensitive to the Administration's inflation worries, G.M. Chairman James Roche recently played the part of a diplomat in meeting with White House economists be fore announcing price increases (aver aging only 1.6%) on his 1969 models...
Still the Biggest. Common Market experience has accustomed many manufacturers to a "multinational" outlook. There is also a weakening of the persistent European notion that U.S. antitrust and securities laws are somehow stacked against foreign operations (they are not). But the main drawing card is that the U.S. market is still the world's biggest and most profitable. Describing his own experience last June, Marcel Bich, whose Bic pen company bought out Waterman Pen Co. in 1959, could hardly contain himself. "The States, it is tough," he declared. "But when it works, it pays!" Bich has long since recouped...
...ANTITRUST. Both men urge clearer Government guidelines to reduce uncertainty over what mergers may encounter federal opposition...