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...predecessor: "The suit was a tremendous cloud that was over the company for 13 years. It couldn't help influencing us in a whole variety of ways. Ending it lifted a huge burden from management's shoulders." Jeffrey Zuckerman, special assistant to Antitrust Division Chief William Baxter, concurs: "We believe IBM must have been deterred from competing as aggressively as it otherwise would have...
Putnam broke no law by making the recording. It is legal in Texas, and many other states, for one party in a telephone conversation to record it without letting the other party know. William Baxter, the Justice Department's antitrust chief, let it be known last week that he thinks company bosses should always record their phone conversations with other company bosses. That would make it harder, reasoned Baxter, to try to fix prices over the phone. Many businessmen found the idea absurd. Could wired golf carts and bugged swizzle sticks be far behind? -By John S. DeMott. Reported...
With average mortgage rates at just under 14%, the lowest level in 27 months, there has been a revival of home sales and construction. "Everybody's encouraged because sales are increasing and the phones are ringing," says Ray Baxter, president of the Houston Board of Realtors; home sales there increased 24% last month over December...
Family Ties (NBC, Wednesdays, 9:30-10 p.m. E.S.T.) offers two aging flower children (Meredith Baxter Birney, Michael Gross) raising a clan of three conformist offspring with wisdom derived less from Spock and Gesell than from Ozzie and Harriet. Gloria (CBS, Sundays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T) brings back Sally Struthers from All in the Family and plunks her down in the sticks, with child, as an apprentice vet. Another show, The New Odd Couple (ABC, Fridays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T.) has literally been here before. Oscar (Demond Wilson) and Felix (Ron Glass) are black this time around...
...first Shakespearean role after 46 years of acting, Anne Baxter, 59 (The Razor's Edge, All About Eve), managed in one falling swoop to live up to two of the stage's hoariest bywords: "Break a leg" and "The show must go on." At the opening of Stratford, Conn.'s American Shakespeare Theater production of Hamlet, Baxter, playing Queen Gertrude to Christopher Walken's Hamlet, was maneuvering herself and her 20-lb. dress down a darkened backstage staircase when she tumbled, breaking her foot and spraining her ankle. Baxter then made it through the second half...