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...Died. Emanuel ("Manie") Sacks, 54, vice president (1950) of RCA and (since 1953) of NBC, longtime friend and agent to leading show-business stars (TIME, Dec. 17, 1956); of leukemia; in Philadelphia...
...Chief Charlie Wilson declared to New York Herald Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Robert J. Donovan (who wrote the authorized account, Eisenhower-The Inside Story) that Ike himself was to blame if this fiscal year's defense budget was really cut too deeply. New York's Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler sniped at "government by regency" and suggested that the President, if ailing, should retire. White House newsmen began pointing up the fact that Ike had not faced a press conference for nine weeks...
...Everything fell apart into familiar argument when the minors got wind of a big-league deal for network television of Sunday games. Screaming that Sunday is their only payday, that their fans would desert them to watch big-league ball, minor-league leaders sent a hasty telegram to Representative Emanuel Celler. Its gist: please re-open congressional hearings on the majors' baseball monopoly...
Died. George Wilhelm Herman Emanuel Merck, 63, towering (6 ft. 5 in.) chairman (since 1949) and longtime president (1925-50) of Merck & Co., Inc., the mass-producing drug and chemicals manufacturer that was launched as a pharmacy in Darmstadt, Germany in 1668 by his ancestors (TIME, Aug. 18, 1952); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in West Orange, N.J. Devoted to company activities, with an exuberant capacity for work, Merck directed the Government's wartime research on biological warfare, built his company (last year's gross: $172.4 million) mostly on good will ("Medicine is for the people...
...powerful pressure groups, e.g., unions and veterans' organizations, have protested that it will be an added expense on family budgets. Congress could effectively discourage pay TV by setting up rigid standards for performance. Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris said that his House Commerce Committee will investigate, and Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler has authored a bill to make pay TV illegal...