Word: baxters
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...hero behind the new antitrust policy is Assistant U.S. Attorney General William F. Baxter, whose reputation is growing among both liberals and conservatives. Like the Western sheriff his boss liked to portray in black-and-while movies. Baxter is aggressive, tough, and fair. In dropping the IBM case, he admitted straight forwardly that "it is perfectly clear that IBM obtained its very large market share in an entirely legal way." But one cannot charge him with being soft on big business; the AT&T settlement was entirely his doing, and his opposition recently prevented the G. Heileman Brewing Company from...
...SUCCESS OF THE new outlook rests on a rejection of the simplistic belief that "bigness is badness," a notion that has haunted Americans since populists like William Jennings Bryan and woodrow Wilson fired anti-business sentiment in the early part of the century. Instead, the intellectual underpinnings of Baxter's policies recall the more sophisticated views of Teddy Roosevelt, who argued that the importance of the Northern Securities Case lay not in breaking up the size of the proposed corporation but in showing that "the most powerful men in this country were held to accountability before...
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, 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...