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...track vs B.C., ITT...
...monopoly powers to stifle competition from other manufacturers of telephone equipment by simply not allowing customers to use phones except those manufactured by its subsidiary, Western Electric. But a federal court ruling in 1968 opened the market to all comers, and since then equipment makers such as GTE and ITT have been able to sell to the Bell System's users. Nonetheless, 80% of the phones in use today were made by Western Electric, most of them rented by customers of AT&T's 22 local operating companies. This is surprising because some of the local companies exact...
...compelling. As reported in The New York Times Magazine two weeks ago, many of the key purveyors of name wear have dipped their digits into the pool of men's under things. These include Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior and Bloomingdale's. Pierre Cardin, who has been called the ITT of designer merchandise, is readying his line, and even poor cousin Jockey, in an effort to clothe itself in the celebrity which accompanies designer wear has placed shots of largely unclothed Orioles' pitcher Jim Palmer in a number of national magazines...
While OPIC has never lost money, it has paid off some hefty insurance claims. OPIC paid $316 million to ITT, Anaconda and 13 other U.S. firms whose property was expropriated in 1971 by Chile's Salvador Allende, but expects to recover the bulk of that from the present Chilean government. Firms driven out of Iran in 1979 have received an additional $14.5 million from OPIC, whose total liability to them could reach $40 million...
Richard Kleindienst, 58, became Attorney General in June 1972 after Mitchell left Cabinet to head Nixon re-election committee. Pleaded guilty to giving false testimony to Senate Judiciary Committee about antitrust suit against ITT. Suspended sentence. Acquitted last year in home state of Arizona on twelve counts of perjury allegedly committed while representing a swindler. Arizona Supreme Court suspended him from practicing law last month. U.S. Supreme Court suspended him last week from practicing before...