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...Democratic Administration, the Federal Trade Commission followed the "per se" rule in cracking down on mergers, assumed that any merger involving a large sum of money probably interfered per se with competition. Under the Republicans, FTC has adopted a new "rule of reason." The test: Will a merger hamper competition in fact? As a result, only two merger cases are now pending before FTC. Of the hundreds of other mergers that have recently taken place, the great majority have served to give business a keener competitive edge...
...last week gave a clue to his intentions. He overruled a Tariff Commission recommendation that he raise the tariff and set quotas on groundfish fillets (cod, flounder, etc.), now being used in the fast-growing new product, fish sticks (TIME, May 17). Said Eisenhower: higher tariffs and quotas "would hamper and limit the development of the market." But if Ike overrules the commission on watches, the Administration may decide to give the watchmakers more defense orders to make up for their lost watch business...
...Wulsin describes experiments, some of them for the Army, on how clothes hamper the body in keeping itself cool. They act as insulators, checking heat loss by radiation. More important, they create near the skin a layer of hot, moisture-saturated air. Sweat cannot evaporate until it has soaked through the clothing, and then its cooling effect is largely wasted. Dr. Wulsin ridicules the idea that Europeans in tropical climates should wear helmets and heavy clothing to keep from being felled by the tropical sun. The less clothing they wear, he says, the better off they...
Rain didn't hamper the varsity golf team yesterday. The golfers, playing on a wet course at Dedham Country Club, walloped Holy Cross...
John Phelps, member of the Yale Committee of the Federation of American Scientists, told a meeting of the Cambridge FAS branch that such a case may seriously hamper "the research that supports our national defense...