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...students returned to Washington and for twenty hours a day wrote up the conclusions reached from the summer's work. The critique, "The Consumer and The Federal Trade Commission," made headlines throughout the country upon its release, and prompted a rather lengthy rebuttal from the Commission's chairman, Paul Rand Dixon...
Father Clifford Stevens, executive editor of The Priest magazine and former Catholic chaplain at California's Edwards Air Force Base, suggests that "theological think tanks" ought to be established to help theologians cope with the spiritual and moral problems of space. He has even consulted the Rand Corporation about the possibility of setting up a "theology fellowship." The theological think tank, as Father Stevens envisions it, would enable a theologian "to carry on dialogue with the scientists. He would take the problems of aerospace and other sciences and try to evaluate them in the light of the theological vision...
...riddled with politics and patronage. Employees tend to be unduly compliant with the wishes of individual Congressmen, who are sometimes much less interested in protecting the consumers than in defending the companies back home. The report blamed the agency's shortcomings on its effusive, arm-waving chairman, Paul Rand Dixon, 55, a onetime aide to the late Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. It called for the chairman to "resign from the agency that he has so degraded and ossified." Among other things, it accused him of "cronyism"-of nearly 500 FTC lawyers, it says, only 40 are Republicans...
...Including Sperry Rand (Univac) with 5.8% of the $5.91 million computer market in 1967, Honeywell with 5.4%, General Electric with 4.1%, RCA with 3%, NCR with 2.4% and Burroughs with 1.8%. Control Data was in fifth place with 3.4%, while IBM held an overwhelming lead with...
...judiciary and a free, if often intimidated press. Now, in what promises to be one of South Af rica's hardest-fought court cases in years, the limits of press freedom are being tested. The occasion is the trial of the editor in chief of Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail, Laurence Gandar, who was arraigned last week for, as he put it, "fulfilling the recognized duty of a newspaper." As Gandar saw that duty, it included publishing a 1965 expose of conditions in South Africa's prisons, re lated mainly by an artist and onetime air force...