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...depth. The impetus is a pending bill that would exempt consolidating newspapers from antitrust laws if one of the papers is "failing" financially. Already under way for two weeks, hearings by Senator Philip Hart's Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee promise to be controversial-and prolonged. They may well outlast this session of Congress, as witnesses deliver not only their opinions of the bill but of the industry's troubles in general...
Still, speed is one thing at Le Mans - and survival is another. The Ford Mark IVs were obviously faster, but could they outlast the Ferraris? Gambling that they could not, Ferrari Team Manager Franco Lini ordered his drivers to hold back, bide their time, and wait for misfortune to hit the Mark IVs. The gamble almost paid off. One Mark IV went off the course, got stuck in sand and never got out; another lost its rear hood, had to pit for repairs and dropped far behind. Then there was Mario Andretti. Running second in the No. 3 Mark...
Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley, meanwhile, had another big, related problem. One of the mayor's first postfire acts was to appoint a panel to determine why a six-year-old exhibition hall that had been built to outlast the Colosseum had no sprinkler systems or fire walls, and had burned down. Wondering also were such insurance companies as Travelers, Continental, and Interstate Fire & Casualty, who had written $29,650,000 worth of insurance on McCormick Place on the say-so of their own inspectors, who estimated its maximum probable fire loss at less than...
...course of the next three or four minutes we witness the demise, through the ensuing decades, of all the boys except two brothers whose determination to outlast each other provides the plot for the next two hours. The absurdity and delicious macabre blend of this premise might have made a first-rate English film. What results, however, is a superficial humorless mishmash of plotting orphan descendants, ridiculous Victorian satire, and cliche mixups...
...honor at the White House. He signaled the scarlet-coated Marine Band to strike up Hello, Dolly!, fox-trotted with more than a dozen partners. Despite the rule that nobody leaves a social event before the President does, only a handful of the 140 guests managed to outlast him. Even Aides Marvin Watson and Jack Valenti, one of whom usually escorts the President to his White House bedroom each night, ducked out quietly while their boss danced...