Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sensing that any Government probe would call for lower rates and profits, many of A.T. & T.'s 2,674,141 investors sold stock, pushing A.T. & T. shares into a paper loss of $792 million before they recovered mildly at week's end. Actually, the FCC may well order A.T. & T. to raise some rates to take the pressure off competitors. Whatever comes of the investigation, which will last about two years and tie up considerable company talent, A.T. & T. does not stand to suffer much. Twice in the past two years it has reduced longdistance rates under...
...scarcely matters how closely Dyne sticks to the historical record, since he remains resolutely distant from life. His stage tactic is to open his characters' mail in public, as it were, but never to disclose their hearts, minds and motives. Acting with urbane finesse, the cast can probe no deeper than its period costumes. The players enunciate all too perfectly some of the woolliest period dialogue of recent seasons. Item: "God, how can I silence this monstrous woman?" Item: "But you betrayed something in me, [soulful pause] deep, deep in me." Double item: Husband-"Have you defiled...
Tawdry Highlights. So far, the Specter probe has yielded eleven arrests-including those of two magistrates and one ex-magistrate-based on more than 40 counts of judicial bribes and shakedowns. Among the Specter report's tawdry highlights...
Second, the essay fails because it does not probe deeply enough, even on its own terms. Zigmond postulates that most of the white volunteer's problems stem from the preconceived notions he entertains of the Negro and the Movement. Fine, but why treat only two of these notions, and at that the two have been most throughly discussed already, Granted, some whites join the struggle because they see the Negro as the Oppressed One (the "guilt-ridden white" in Zigmond's terms) or as an agent of massive social change (the "utopian white"). This however hardly exhausts the possibilities. Some...
Pitching In. Meanwhile, Governor Pat Brown's special commission to probe the cause of the riots, headed by former CIA Director John McCone, held its first meeting, decided to submit its report by Dec. 1. Addressing the commission, Governor Brown said: "The fate not only of Los Angeles but of other cities in California and the nation may well depend on your findings...