Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Batman think the chairman was giving dastardly publicity to the bat channel by wearing puce powder-blue tights? Gleeps! Henry decided to stay out of the women's club show. From now on he'll stick close to his cave at the FCC...
Last week the Federal Communications Commission moved part way to plug the bug. An FCC order banning private use of radio devices to intercept private conversations-with a maximum fine of $500 a day for convicted snoopers-applies to scores of bugging techniques. Not affected is eavesdropping apparatus that does not use radio, such as a microphone connected by wire to a hidden listening post, or a disguised tape recorder. Law-enforcement agencies are exempt from the ban though still subject to local laws and regulations...
...Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, which has been holding hearings on electronic snooping for the past year, approved the ruling, but maintains that federal laws are still needed to outlaw such practices entirely. Meanwhile, the FCC edict will help, as Chairman E. William Henry put it, to protect "the little man from...
Plainly upset by the price slide, the FCC two weeks ago went out of its way to insist that investors had "misinterpreted" the aims of its inquiry. With that, A.T. &T. stock rallied for a 21-point gain to 611. The FCC insists its aim is merely to learn whether the yardstick it has long used to regulate A.T. & T. rates-the company's profit on its investment-is outdated. "We don't know if our rate-making philosophy is going to change or not," said FCC Chairman E. William Henry last week. "Up to now, the company...
...FCC concedes that the investigation will require at least two years, after the Bell System submits its first written briefs in April. One reason: 66 public bodies and private corporations, from Aeronautical Radio Inc. to Xerox, have asked to be heard. In the end, the outcome could well be resolved as much by stamina as strategy-and Ma Bell has proved quite resilient over the years. The last time the FCC took her on for a big fight was in 1934. Those hearings stretched on so interminably that most of the issues were either settled by negotiation or simply forgotten...