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WHRB has, as an interested party, filed a brief with the FCC against the allocation of channel 289 to WKOX. The Concert Network, which operates rebroad-casting relay activities on channel 290 has obtained a ten day extension in order to file a complaint...
John B. Niles '59, president of WHRB, said that a decision by the FCC "might take weeks." The evidence will first be examined by the commission's staff, which then will recommend a decision to the FCC board. The commissioners may or may not follow their staff's recommendation...
...FCC has indicated that the engineers for WKOX are examining other available FM channels. However, the New England area is "saturated" and another channel may be difficult to find. WHRB has not suggested any alternate channel for WKOX in its brief...
Schwartz's firing had long been inevitable. During his six months in Washington he had bullied both witnesses and Congressmen (TIME, Feb. 17). He had got into a mixup on his own expense accounts at the same time that he was accusing FCC Chairman John Charles Doerfer of chiseling the Government on expanses. He had leaked secret subcommittee papers to newsmen even while denouncing subcommittee members for doing the same thing; under Schwartz's taunting, subcommittee members swore under oath, in one of history's silliest congressional scenes, that they had not leaked a confidential memo...
...Richard Mack, 48, an amiable Florida Democrat who had been thought of as a possibility for his party's future nomination for governor or Senator. Indeed, Schwartz was hardly off the stand before Attorney General William Rogers ordered the FBI into the case. Miami's Whiteside and FCC's Mack protested their innocence, and Mack requested a chance to give the subcommittee his side of the story. He was set down for the chance this week. Not before then could anyone tell whether Bernard Schwartz, after lo, these many months, had performed any public service other than...