Word: june
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...this space to report on the nation's continuing postal problem. Since then, some progress has been made on legislation to deal with that problem, though it has not shown up in your mail service. Now even the legislative progress has been halted by White House intervention. Last June a bill was introduced into the House of Representatives designed to make the postal system once again viable and effective. Its authors are James M. Hanley of New York and Charles H. Wilson of California, who over the years have taken a great deal of testimony and initiated considerable research...
...LATEST BOOK, The Zapping of America, Paul Brodeur relates a poignant experience during his Cape Cod vacation last June. He was reading the Provincetown Advocate and draped across the front page was the wary proviso: "TRURO RADAR COULD FRY HANG-GLIDERS...
Donald Woods, former editor of a leading South African opposition newspaper, recently accepted the post of visiting Nieman fellow for the term of July 1, 1978 to June 1979, James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation, said yesterday...
...Montana Democratic Senator Lee Metcalf asked Senate Aide Victor Reinemer last June if he could not do better. With the help of two assistants and a research firm called Corporate Data Exchange, Reinemer dug through tons of information, most of it on the public record, involving 122 major corporations. Last week the study was published. Of the firms, 56 either had more than 5% of their shares voted by a single institutional investor, had more than 10% controlled by five or fewer such investors, or had 10% owned by a single family. Among the top five stockholders in each...
Silverman's contract with ABC runs through the first week of June, and ABC-TV President Fred Pierce made it clear that ABC would try to keep him until then. That would deprive NBC of his programming cunning during the next 4½ months, when most of the key decisions will be made about next fall's schedule. "The longer ABC can keep Freddie from going to NBC, the better off it is," says Mike Dann, TV consultant and Silverman's longtime mentor. "By June ABC will have set up its plans until 1981, and NBC will...