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Regarding the FCC and Richie Mack story [March 10]: One might think that Truman was still in the White House...
Under White House and congressional pressure, Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack resigned last week for his part in the FCC award of Miami's Channel 10 last year to a National Airlines television subsidiary (TIME, March 10). Mack insisted that his conscience was clear about his vote for National and the loans and gifts he accepted from Old Friend Thurman Whiteside. (In two years on the FCC, Government investigators reported, Mack received $35,000 in salary and $41,000 from outside sources.) But Dwight Eisenhower stiffly told him: "You are wise to tender your resignation...
...Mack had at least one defender. Tough, outspoken National Airlines President George T. Baker, who in 40 years had personally built a 140-mile airmail run into a lucrative. 3.400-mile passenger route. Baker, a fellow Floridian, appeared before the FCC-probing House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight to protest that Mack was "being broken, crucified and . . . sent home in disgrace." But "more guilty," insisted Baker, were Florida's Democratic Senators George Smathers and Spessard Holland, together with Tennessee's Estes Kefauver. Their crime, to Baker's mind: pressuring the FCC for a rival Channel 10 applicant...
...furor attending the resignation of Richard A. Mack from the Federal Communications Commission (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) has obscured an even more serious situation. Entirely apart from skulduggery and influence-peddling, the critical fact is that the federal regulatory agencies, which make decisions vitally affecting both industry and the public, are not doing the job they are supposed to do in the way it should be done. They operate at a snail's pace in a jet age, bog down helplessly in incredibly lengthy and complicated procedures that entail enormous delays and staggering expense to all involved. Items...
...Richie Mack sat chain-smoking, his hand trembling, his eyes filled with tears. When Harris finished, he leaned forward, said in a choked voice: "I will certainly most seriously consider your remarks...