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Beyond that, Diebold's group is also examining ways of reshuffling top man agement to free up high executives to concentrate on public issues, many of which have a tremendous influence on profits. One way may be to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive. The chairman-Mr. Outside-would concentrate on anticipating the demands of society and Government. He (or she) would head a board with fewer corporate officers and more independent directors than is common today. The chief executive-Mr. Inside-would run the company. Already Mead Corp. and Connecticut General Insurance have moved in this...
...President Carter submitted a bill that would impose a virtual ban on police searches and seizures of a reporter's "work product," which means his notes, drafts, tapes and film. The bill would protect not only journalists but scholars and authors-anyone involved in disseminating information to the public. The ban permits two exceptions: police can still make surprise searches for material held by someone who is suspected of having committed a crime and in certain "life-endangering situations," like kidnapings. Otherwise, needed information would have to be sought by subpoena...
...legal tug of war had been going on for four months when suddenly last week Fairbanks mysteriously showed up on campus. Eddie Crowder, the university's athletic director, refused to say what was going on. Colorado Governor Richard Lamm was furious. "The public is being treated like mushrooms-kept in the dark and spread with manure," he fumed. Two days later, the university's regents revealed that Colorado had acquired Fairbanks because of an extraordinary out-of-court settlement: the indefatigable Flatirons had agreed to pay $200,000 to the Patriots in return for dropping the suit...
Television makes little enough use of its power to form public opinion, and not just because it is running all those sitcorns. Television in 1948 won the right to 5 editorialize on the air, but, says Paley, "finally we concluded there was no way the network could give editorial opinions on national or international subjects." Why? Because so many of its independently owned affiliates had different political opinions. Paley speaks of "heated arguments" with Ed Murrow, Eric Sevareid and Howard K. Smith about editorializing, which is why your ordinary local late-night radiogabber is a lot freer with his opinions...
...couple of vicious anti-Carter stories. Last week the government of South Africa admitted that it made available $11.5 million from a secret slush fund in 1974 during McGoff s unsuccessful attempt to buy the Washington Star. Presumably, South Africa hoped to turn the Star into a public relations organ for that country's racism. Loeb and McGoff are anachronisms, but hardly powerful...