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...share to last week's 28⅜. Last year the Securities and Exchange Commission accused company officials of manipulating the stock and making misleading statements about proposed mergers. For a while, Parvin/ Dohrmann stock was suspended from trading. The SEC claimed that, at the behest of Company Chairman Delbert Coleman, Parvin/Dohrmann had paid Washington influence-peddler Nathan Voloshen $50,000 in a vain attempt to raise the ban. In February, Coleman resigned and trading was resumed. Parvin/ Dohrmann reported a profit of $10.2 million for last year, compared with a $618,000 loss in 1968. Its casinos made...
...Gabriel Kolko of the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Progressive Era represented not the bridling of predatory big business by the Federal Government but rather the capture of Government by business. In The Triumph of Conservatism, Kolko argues that most Government regulation was enacted at the behest of leading corporations, which wanted railroad legislation, meat inspection or fair-trade laws to save them from increasingly anarchic competition. They lost no time gaining control of regulatory commissions like the ICC that were intended to supervise their activities...
...supplied 8,000 tulips, his hairdresser, and several other generous purveyors. After sign-off, the couple held an unruly press conference in which Tiny estimated that their kiss during the ceremony had been "about our fifth," but then proceeded to buss Miss Vicki 100 more times at the behest of the photographers...
...Labor, and probably his most delicate one, to set the tone of the Administration in major labor-management disputes. In that, George Pratt Shultz stands in sharp contrast to his activist Democratic predecessors, Arthur Goldberg and Willard Wirtz, who intervened frequently if reluctantly at Lyndon Johnson's behest. Before last week's strike against General Electric, Shultz held private meetings with company officials and union leaders. He has quietly helped to cool several other labor disputes, particularly in the airlines. But he firmly opposes direct and heavily publicized intervention. "We want the free collective bargaining process, to work...
...focus of the furor, Haynsworth, spent most of the turbulent week sequestered in Washington's Mayflower Hotel. He offered nothing publicly except the assurance that he had no intention of withdrawing under fire. At Nixon and Mitchell's behest, he submitted to extensive questioning from Assistant Attorney General William F. Rehnquist, who heads the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. Nixon knew that one more piece of damaging evidence against Haynsworth, however trivial, would surely tip the balance against the South Carolinian. Nixon wanted no more surprises. He seemed confident there would be none, and urged...