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...foreign and domestic drilling operations. Now a wave of hostility unmatched since the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 has plunged the oil industry into big political trouble. In one of the milder manifestations of anti-industry sentiment, the Federal Trade Commission last week took only hours to overturn a recommendation by one of its own administrative law judges and resolved to press ahead with a two-year-old antitrust suit that seeks to break up eight major oil companies...
...Management: Cambridge's present city manager, James. L. Sullivan, and its new schools superintendent, William Landon, are both the products of extensive searches by the liberal political leaders. As trained administrators and outsiders, they represent the liberals' attempt to overturn a long-standing system of civil service and patronage appointments. If the conservatives win a major election victory, at least the city manager will join the 8.9 per cent unemployed...
...from their holiday recess, they fervently hoped that Barkley's adage still held true. The 94th Congress was supposed to be a Democratic triumph, but in the past three months the session has turned into an almost unmitigated Democratic disaster because of a crushing succession of failures to overturn presidential vetoes. Nonetheless, the party's congressional leaders believe that time yet remains to salvage enough of their program to retrieve their self-esteem and arrest President Gerald Ford's momentum before the presidential campaigns begin in earnest next year. As a first step, House Speaker Carl Albert...
Lawyers for Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin argued a motion at a hearing in Suffolk County Superior Court yesterday to overturn his February 15 manslaughter conviction on the grounds that the verdict went against the weight of the evidence...
Defense attorneys in the Kenneth C. Edelin manslaughter case resubmitted a motion yesterday asking Suffolk Superior Court Judge James P. McGuire to overturn the guilty verdict passed by a jury February...