Word: mccolough
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...Administration, in part because potential nominees are reluctant to commit themselves to a boss who may have only a bit more than a year in power. According to Washington rumor, such top businessmen as Henry Ford II, General Electric's Reginald Jones and Xerox's Peter McColough have turned down the post of Secretary of Commerce. Carter last week approved California Federal Judge Charles B. Renfrew as Deputy Attorney General. But Renfrew's formal nomination is being held up because Hispanics consider him unsympathetic. Carter now wants to couple Renfrew's appointment with the nomination...
Carter spent much of his three days in Washington in policy sessions. One was with 15 prominent businessmen, including Coca-Cola Co. Chairman J. Paul Austin and Xerox Corp. Chairman C. Peter McColough. who are possible appointees to high posts in the Administration. The businessmen urged that the economy be stimulated by means of a tax cut (see ECONOMY AND BUSINESS). Carter advisers feared that a permanent instead of a temporary cut would lead to problems in paying for new programs like national health insurance and making good on Carter's campaign pledge to balance the budget...
...usual air of confidence, do not appear excessively worried by the new competitive threat. They note that the company has long expected the copier market to become quickly saturated, even though sales are still growing. Saturation, says Archie McCardell, Xerox's No. 2 executive, behind Chairman C. Peter McColough, "will happen but much more slowly than we thought...
...Peter McColough, LL.D., chairman of Xerox Corp...
...promising to fight "every aspect" of the FTC's case, Xerox Chairman C. Peter McColough saved his heaviest fire for the patent-giveaway idea. Said he: "What is being challenged here is the very basis of the patent system-the concept that an inventor should be awarded exclusive rights to his invention for a period of time." The Government has, in fact, challenged that idea a few times before. In the interest of promoting competition, General Electric was forced to pass out patented electrical know-how to competitors in the early '50s. But rarely if ever...