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Corcoran also got in touch with two other FPC commissioners, later called on Kuykendall in his office to make another plea for the rate. The pipeline was approved, but the rate was not set because, explained Kuykendall, the FPC was waiting until all the expenses of building it were in. Kuykendall insisted that there was nothing to hide about the affair, said that he had informed the committee of the calls himself, although not until the story had been printed in a trade journal...
...expected, there were suburban wails. Grumbled Westchester County Supervisor Arnold D. Roseman: "It's the rape of Westchester." Arthur T. Roth, chairman of the Franklin National Bank of Long Island and a bitter opponent of the bill, pointedly asked Governor Rockefeller whether "an eleventh-hour emergency plea issued on a bill that favors Chase Manhattan isn't a conflict of interest." Replied Rockefeller: he had sold his 18,000 Chase Manhattan shares last January...
...impressed by young Business School Student Chiang's influential background, the judge was most displeased at the State Department's efforts to save Chiang's face, and at Chiang's demand for a jury trial, duly granted, but made pointless by Chiang's plea amounting to no defense...
...love Alice Marie," pleaded Richard Combs, 25, a husky sheet-metal worker of Old Bridge, N.J. But the plea was not enough for New Jersey's Board of Child Welfare. Last week, in the state's second highest court, the board moved to deny Gloria and Dick Combs's dearest desire-to adopt their foster child, a gay, elfin four-year-old. The board's reason: Alice Marie, according to social workers, is too bright to remain in the Combses' "television-centered" household...
...Opposite. Purpose of Wisconsin's muscle-moll project, undertaken in response to a plea from the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults, is to learn more about how building up one set of muscles reacts on others in different parts of the body, and to apply this knowledge in rehabilitation. Chicago-born Dr. Hellebrandt, 58, came out of retirement (after a distinguished career in physical medicine and rehabilitation) to head the project, enlisted 24 coeds, all physical-education majors, as subjects...