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...rate of return on interstate telephone operations from its present 7.9% to only 7% . A.T. & T.was obviously displeased. Chairman Frederick Kappel termed the reductions "out of step with the Government's efforts to encourage economic growth." But there is little doubt that subscribers will be happy to heed the call...
...However, the last thing the Conservative-Liberals want is an eye-gouging, knee-in-groin political battle. At a party caucus last week, they voted to leave the choice of Premier up to two respected party elders rather than risk an open election. If they and the top contenders heed Ikeda's wishes, the decision will be made soon. Asking the party to choose his successor "amiably and speedily," the retiring Prime Minister urged that in view of "recent developments here and abroad," the government should "avoid causing the slightest sense of insecurity in the nation...
...splintering of the Democratic Party is revealed in the appointments for lower office. Here every Greek, Pole, Jew, Frenchman, Portugese, Armenian, Negro or Italian has a claim on something, and the party is merely the facade behind which the unseemly scramble for office takes place. Little heed is paid either to law or decency, especially since most appointments for confirmation must pass through the Governor's Council, a body often said to be up for sale or open to influence...
...criticizing Volpe's sales tax as being against the common man; 5) appealing to the voter's Joyalty to the Party of the Poor Man. "We will not betray you." The Democrats in Massachusetts outnumber the state's 600,000 Republicans by 400,000. If they heed his call for party loyalty the future looks less than sanguine for the Republicans...
...Fairchild's great dream is to assemble an Eastern aerospace company that would rival the West Coast's Lock heed, Boeing or North American. Toward that end Fairchild and his Fairchild Stratos Corp. have been buying into Long Island's Republic Aviation Corp., have acquired a controlling 21% of Republic's stock. Last week Fairchild's interest caused an upheaval at Republic. Faced by Fairchild's plans for changes at Republic, Mundy I. Peale, 58, Republic's president for 17 years, resigned...