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...Washington, Lyndon Johnson applauded the idea of a Cambodian conference. In London, Prime Minister Harold Wilson heartily concurred. And in Paris, where Charles de Gaulle was playing host to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, both France and Russia gave their consent. To all and sundry it seemed an ideal backdoor to negotiations over Viet Nam, and it was precisely that which bugged the Snook...
Closer Scrutiny. The New York Stock Exchange complains that such backdoor operations are unduly secretive and siphon off stocks that otherwise would be available to the general public. Unlike floor specialists, third market dealers are also under no restrictions against dumping inventories when the market is falling. The exchange is even more upset over the commissions its member firms are losing to the third market. If the exchange wanted to, however, it could check the third's growth in one stroke: by offering commission discounts on large-volume transactions. Under the pressure of competition, the exchange has begun...
...saying, Scranton detailed his objections to the bill. He argued for revisions permitting the states much greater power in planning and implementing the anti-poverty program, greater curbs on the role of federal authority, annual appropriations for funds to be made by the Congress instead of "backdoor" financing, and more specific remedies to clear up the hazards of health and economy of Appalachia's coal regions...
...Epstein, 70, a Brooklyn political hack who was appointed to his $24,000-a-year post by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1960. Epstein, a diabetic whose left leg was recently amputated, was carried before the grand jury on a stretcher. He refused to waive his immunity (a sort of backdoor way of taking the Fifth Amendment), which is grounds for dismissal under the state constitution. Rockefeller fired him and appointed Donald Hostetter, 54, an ex-FBI man, to take his place...
...assistant at Cincinnati before moving up to the top job. Jucker, 45, is a master of such complicated tactics as the Backdoor Trap and the Swing-and-Go, plays designed to spring a Cincinnati player, all alone, under the enemy basket. He dotes on "the science of percentage basketball, " computes the mathematical odds on the success of every maneuver he orders the Bearcats to make on court. Methodical on offense, Cincinnati concentrates on ball control, passing the ball back and forth, patiently waiting for an enemy defense to make the error that will leave a Bearcat player open...