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...smaller share of the nation's markets than at present. Meanwhile, the new activism in antitrust would concentrate more and more power in the Justice Department's and FTC's enforcement bureaus. Assistant Attorney General John Shenefield, the antitrust chief, told the group that the public has concluded, though reluctantly, that Big Government is a necessary counterweight to Big Business. If businesses continue to concentrate and grow larger, warned Ohio Democratic Congressman John F. Seiberling, the public will increasingly demand that they be nationalized. His point: it is in business's own self-interest to support...
...lacks the impact of Jason Robards' scary Chief Executive in Behind Closed Doors. Though Robards made no attempt to imitate Nixon's mannerisms, he probed the man's soul; Torn, mimicking Nixon's actual words and gestures, only manages to re-create the familiar public persona. The difference between the two performances is emblematic of the gap between the two series. In historical dramas, facts can be helpful tools, but it takes art to snare the truth...
...chicken in every spot at Far West sports and public events is the flappable radio station KGB chicken from San Diego. With its infowlable agility to leap and cavort, the chicken clucks up everything from San Diego Padres baseball games to supermarket openings. Feathered by Ted Giannoulas, 24, who now earns more than $50,000 a year for such appearances, the bird has flown as far as New York City with increasing recognition. Now, however, Giannoulas and KGB, which conceived the bird, are tangling over rights. KGB has filed a $250,000 damage suit claiming ownership of the chicken concept...
...Washington Lawyer Max M. Kampelman. It urges the establishment of a professional code of ethics, the use of internal ombudsmen, and passage of antitrust measures to contain the growth of media conglomerates. Perhaps most significant for Sinatra, Kampelman argues for statutory revisions that would make it easier for public figures to win libel suits...
Organized by the National Museum of Korea, "5,000 Years of Korean Art" opened at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and during the next two years will travel to six other U.S. cities. In order to assemble this dazzling show of 345 objects, both public and private collections in Korea were virtually stripped. There are treasures of gold and gold enameling discovered in tombs as recently as 1974, and menacing guardian figures found in the ruins of a Buddhist temple. There are scrolls and paintings, daggers and belt buckles, masks and fans. All the traditional motifs and idioms...