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...George Getty II. The takeover would bring Humble one refinery, five supertankers and 3,900 gas stations in seven Western states. In one of the largest suits ever filed under the Clayton Anti trust Act's Section 7, which bars mergers that might substantially lessen competition, the trustbusters contended that Humble's great size could squeeze out other companies in the Western market - even though the merged company would have only 9% of that market...
...protection. Neither is the once-popular, now little-used, device of the skull and crossbones; children either don't know what it means, or they associate it with exciting TV programs about pirates. Last week the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association began a statewide campaign to lessen some of the childhood hazards in a chemically fertile age by enlisting the aid of the kids...
While the tax bill will lessen such rewards in the future, it will also tend to mute the critics. Because the new law tightens up on options but reduces taxes on salaries, straight salary will also gain in importance as an executive reward. But for men in high brackets, options will remain a solid fringe...
...arrested many top leftist trade union leaders, whom he charged with planning a general strike lu support of the mutiny. He forbade distribution of the Aga Khan's Nairobi-based newspaper, the Nation, which had reported accurately but too zealously the near-toppling of the government. To lessen potential dissent, he replaced British army commanders with Africans. At the same time, he appointed a commission to consider constitutional changes that would make Tanganyika "a democratic one-party state" in law as well as fact...
President Johnson aimed a stern warning at businessmen and labor leaders against any hiking of prices and wages that might touch off another round of inflation and further lessen the already much-eroded value of the dollar. The President was concerned by recent wholesale-price rises and by possible demands for big wage hikes in upcoming labor talks in major industries. Should inflation appear again despite this warning, it will be the job of the Federal Reserve Board to combat it by limiting the money supply-and that possibility last week caused a clash between Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin...