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...rough sailing. Through 23 subsidiary companies, A.T. & T. controls 85% of all U.S. telephone communications, most long-distance operations, and an increasing share of the fast-growing data-transmission business. It remains a private monopoly largely because of rate accommodations with the Federal Communications Commission and with a bewilder ing variety of state and local regulatory agencies. The FCC is currently engaged in its closest scrutiny yet of A.T. & T. operations. One principal issue is A.T. & T.'s fixed rate of return on investment...
Like no other mayor since Fiorello La Guardia, Lindsay has displayed a style and vitality that seem to pump adrenaline into the city. He calls his administration a "wild show" and pur sues his quest for "visible government" by ranging the city day and night, turn ing up at fires and theater openings, dropping into police stations and art galleries, presiding at Waldorf banquets with bigwigs and at street-corner chaf-ferings with slum constituents. He has, in fact, an excess of both zeal and guts that has made him assault the city's gargantuan problems with reckless disregard...
...provide a carte blanche when he ventures into the fields covered by the film," which is a searing, silent 30-minute portrayal of a sadistic prison guard alternately beating and spying upon four convicts engaged in various homosexual acts. Worse, said the court, Chant itself has no redeem ing artistic merit. The film is devoid of theme, plot or character development...
...spectators hooted and booed Holt for his pro-Viet Nam stand; as he left the rally, a jeering mob of 500 swarmed around him, pummeling, kicking and finally spitting on him. When police finally got Holt to his car, a few diehards threw themselves across the road. The follow ing night at a Melbourne rally, demonstrators were at it again, chanting "Judas!" and "Traitor!" "If the Labor Party cannot control these demonstrations," shouted an exasperated Holt, "what chance have they in controlling our destiny?" Most of Australia's 6,000,000 voters got the point. At week...
...adamant was longtime Director-General Imbriani Longo, now 72, about the proposition that politics and bank ing do not mix that he even declined government honors and decorations...