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...another antitrust suit filed last week, the Justice Department accused Radio Corp. of America and its subsidiary, National Broadcasting Co., "of unlawfully combining and conspiring" to obtain TV stations in five of the nation's eight top markets. Specifically, said the trustbusters, NBC threatened last year to withhold its network affiliations, (and guaranteed programming) from Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. stations unless Westinghouse swapped its radio and TV outlets in Philadelphia, the fourth-largest TV market in population and retail sales, for NBC's radio and TV stations in Cleveland (which, said the complaint, was the tenth market), plus...
Leighton said that the cases of the remaining five per cent "would be taken up by the administration." Of this group, 41 have not sent in replies to either of the two questionnaires sent them, while the remaining 11 responded that they had been unable to obtain any space...
...polled, 496 said that they had been able to obtain a parking space in either a garage or a lot somewhere in Cambridge or Harvard Square. "Of course, we can't be absolutely sure as to the validity of this report," Leighton said, "but I go on the philosophy that people generally tell the truth...
...Army, which reached its brazen peak in 1944 when Marshal Rokossovsky's army stood idly in the outskirts of Warsaw while the Nazis systematically bombed, shelled and dynamited the city, killing 250,000 people, was the logical outcome of the "Russian problem.'' What Stalin did not obtain by force, he won politically at the conference tables at Yalta and Potsdam. The Western Allies agreed that Poland should fall within the Soviet sphere...
...report was prepared through study of the ticket distribution, but one passage suggested that Lunden's office refused full cooperation. It reads, "We have been unable to obtain an exact accounting for all the tickets in Section 31. A cursory observation would seem to indicate some of these tickets are used by groups other than those listed." The Department of Athletics had said that tickets in Section 31 went to players and to University officials...