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...trustbusters charged that the merger had made Owens-Illinois the top U.S. producer of shipping containers, giving it a "decisive competitive advantage" over smaller, single-line companies, and increasing the "tendency toward monopoly in the container field generally." Replied Owens-Illinois Chairman John Preston Levis, grandson of the founder: "No antitrust violation was involved." In fact, said Levis, the merger was necessary for effective competition, "enabling us to deliver at the lowest possible cost the glass jars, bottles, tableware and other materials we make...
...least limited action (ABC pre-empted only one half-hour show the entire evening). The national chains carried spotty U.N. pickups all evening, but when Secretary Dulles appealed to the world for support, ABC was preoccupied with The Lone Ranger, NBC with Guy Lombardo and CBS with Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. (But CBS did carry the late session until closing.) And for the most part, both of the nation's biggest networks, which each week toss around gobs of sponsor dough with reckless abandon, carried the U.N. during cheap, second-rate time slots when their affiliates across...
...made in military service. Perhaps the most heroic image of all is that of towering (6 ft. 4½ in., 240 Ibs.) Paul Sutton, 46, running against Republican William Broomfield, 34, in Michigan's 18th District. For ten years Sutton starred on the radio program Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. Even so, he is losing...
...Preston, Jr., resident tutor from Dunster House, said that most of the confusion arose from "the incomplete working out of minor jurisdictional problems...
PHILADELPHIA, Oct, 2--George Preston Marshall, owner of the Washington Redskins, said today that the Ivy League schools which created college football are destroying...