Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Absentee Owners. As the only daily in a burgeoning town, the News-Press had no lack of hopeful buyers. The Ridder chain, the Los Angeles Times, British Press Lord Roy Thomson were all said to have made bids. McLean overcame Storke's objection to absentee ownership by purchasing the paper for himself, not for the Philadelphia Bulletin Co. He also promised to live in Santa Barbara part of each year, and he has already moved his nephew Stuart Symington Taylor, 50, a cousin of the Missouri Senator, from his job as Bulletin vice president to fulltime publisher...
...known as "TAT 4." The first effective Atlantic cable was laid in 1866 by the famed Great Eastern and still carries telegraph messages. Since 1956, A.T. & T. has laid three TATs that accommodate both printed and voice messages (previously, transatlantic calls were made by radiophone). A.T. & T. shares ownership of these cables variously with Canada, France, Britain and Germany. Each of the existing lines has as many as 84 channels, and A.T. & T. leases some of them to the U.S. telegraph and teletype companies for $102,000 a year per channel...
...adamant in denying guilt, but not antagonistic. The medical report says that he is in good health, mentally and physically. The investigator's report reveals that he was born in poverty, one of seven children; he quit school after fourth grade, rose from common laborer to ownership of a small nightclub, a $7,000 house and 300 acres of pasture. The law says you must send this man to prison for a minimum of five years; the maximum sentences add up to 220 years and $280,000 in fines. What sentence will you impose? The case might have made...
Tortured Compromise. Ever since Congress approved Comsat's formation in 1962, after a bitter battle between the champions of Government ownership and private-business control, the corporation has spent most of its time laying the groundwork for action. Last week that action began on several fronts...
...three Negro attorneys. These efforts, however, are complicated by a Mississippi bonding law which demands that ball be posted in the form of a surety bond or a property bond. No bonding companies in Mississippi will agree to post bond for civil rights workers, and a property bond requires ownership of property in Hinds County...