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Assistant Attorney General William Baxter vowed to litigate A T & T to the eyeballs [Jan. 18]. Yet the company gives us the best telephone service in the world. It employs 1 million people, has a pension fund never touched by scandal, is well managed and pays regular dividends to 3 million stockholders. As a taxpayer, I protest the $15 million spent pursuing this case. As a stockholder, I resent the $360 million AT&T expended defending itself. As a consumer, I will unquestionably be hurt...
Nilan made the record books with what has to be one of the most innovative plays seen this year. After getting a high stick near the eye from Pittsburgh's Paul Baxter. Nilan attacked his assailant, who wisely covered up in a heap on the ice. As he made his way to the penalty box. Nilan heard some remarks from Baxter which he apparently did not care for. Thinking that the moment required some decisive action. Nilan picked up a loose puck and, from the penalty box, winged it across the ice at Baxter, nailing him squarely on the head...
Nilan, you might surmise, is tough. Nevertheless, the only people whose eyes he wants to open up right now are in the Montreal management. He hasn't played much since he torpedoed Baxter and is hoping to get back in the lineup. "I've been in and out now for a while. I just want a chance to play regularly and then I think everything will be fine...
DIED. Frank Baxter, 85, retired professor of English at the University of Southern California, whose Shakespeare on TV, a series of lively lectures on the Bard, drew huge audiences in the 1950s and 1960s and won him several awards, including seven Emmys; of a heart attack; in San Marino, Calif...
...conclusion of the two cases set an important landmark in antitrust law. Said Assistant Attorney General Baxter: "What we learned today is that a company that is large and has a large market share should be allowed to compete aggressively. Period." The giant A T & T was indeed abusing its privileged monopoly position and will be broken up. But the giant IBM has legally achieved its important position in the computer industry and will be allowed to continue in its present form. Last week's decisions will help strengthen competition in both the communications and computer industries. -By Christopher...