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...McFerran, Agnes A. Hearn; R. W. Lishman, Margaret Lang; H. H. Rapp. Florence M. Lang; A. G. Rogers, Gwendolyn Rogers...
Died. Robert Lishman, 67, indefatigable congressional investigator; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. As chief counsel of a House subcommittee, Lishman directed the 1958 inquiry that led to the resignation of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams for accepting gifts from Industrialist Bernard Goldfine; a year later, Lishman was instrumental in exposing rigged TV quiz shows...
...Mueller had tried to argue the merits of the case, I'd have shut him up." Kuykendall said that Kline had gone to Colorado and worked on the reduced refund. Explained Kuykendall: "We encouraged it. We have a tremendous backlog of cases." Asked Committee Counsel Robert W. Lishman: "Is it in the consumer's interest for the FPC to go for a lower settlement?" Replied Kuykendall: "You're oversimplifying. It's not in the public interest for such a company to go bankrupt...
...committee is also concerned, said Lishman, that the FPC has another $506 million worth of temporary gas and electric rate increases pending, and in some cases temporary increases have been piled on other temporary increases. They are one way for gas companies to finance expansion at the consumer's expense, argued Lishman. If the increases are later turned down and rebates are necessary, the money is paid back to customers at interest rates about the same as regular financing rates...
Freed & Upper Darby. As the committee got ready for more questions this week. Counsel Robert Lishman leaked the news that ex-Jockey Alan Freed, who himself was spun off the ABC turntables for payola (TIME. Nov. 30), had impugned Clark's purity in closed session. Despite everything, at least one group was willing to stick by its boyman: the senior class of Philadelphia's suburban Upper Darby High School wanted to present Clark with a certificate of honor last week "because he talks to us like we are people." But Clark, talking to Congressmen almost as if they...