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In one way, at least, the new television season is ahead of its time: by soft-pedaling assault and murder, it accurately forecasts the Federal Government's report on TV violence. The report, scheduled to be released this week by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of...
The commission-a mixed bag of Congressmen, lawyers, educators, psychiatrists and sociologists-was established last year. Its report recommends self-policing by the networks and suggests guidelines. These include a reduction in programs that contain violence; elimination of violence from children's programs; and adoption of the British practice...
WHILE every special interest has a lobby in Washington, the U.S. consumer does not. Yet he is supposed to have one: the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC was created in 1914, partly to enforce antitrust laws and partly to stop misleading advertising, false labeling and deceptive sales practices-precisely the...
...comes at a crucial time. President Nixon asked for it, obviously to help guide him in appointing an FTC chairman to succeed Paul Rand Dixon, a Democrat who has held the job since 1961. Dixon has offered to move down and serve until 1974 as one of the five commissioners. Nixon could name the new man as early as this week, when the seven-year term of Commissioner James Nicholson expires...
PARKINSON'S LAW. The FTC has been doing steadily less work with more people. In fiscal 1962, the commission opened 1,795 formal investigations of suspected business abuses. Last year it opened only 611. "We are perplexed by the magnitude of the reduction," said the A.B.A. study. The FTC...