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Barnes handled a large volume of monopoly cases but settled with consent decrees to end certain practices rather than press for dissolution...
...Justice Department suit asks the court to order any necessary "divorcement, divestiture or reorganization" of IBM. It is not likely that Jus tice has any intention of breaking up the company. Probably, the trustbusters will use the threat as a bargaining point in working out a consent decree at the end of a case that is likely to drag on for years. Justice mainly hopes to restrain IBM's zeal a bit so that more competition can flourish. IBM called the charges "unwarranted" and promised to "defend itself forcefully." As evidence of the "open and strongly competitive nature...
Britain's House of Lords was debating a knotty problem: whether or not to lower from 21 to 18 the age at which a man may marry without parental consent. Finally, up stepped that superfeminist and onetime minister under Clement Attlee, Lady Summerskill, 67, to oppose the measure and put the issue in perspective: "Although your lordships know that I try to promote the interests of my sex frequently in this House, on this occasion I am biased in favor of the boy. I know the power of my sex when they are young. One has only to look...
...Consent and Denial. In its confidential role as underwriter for the Douglas Aircraft Corp. during 1966, Merrill Lynch learned that the company's first-half earnings would be down sharply...
...taken me years to get my wife to consent to fly with me-which she was about to do at the end of this month...