Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle rose to the surface during the flight of Apollo 9, specifically when Commander Jim McDivitt asked to speak to the ground in private to report that Rusty Schweikart was vomiting. When Robert Gilruth, director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, granted permission, reporters protested. As the battle continued, Haney pondered-and then took the position that the right of the press and the public to know was more important than the astronauts' desire for privacy...
...Lufkin, the 37-year-old chairman of Donaldson, Lufkin and a Big Board governor, is pressing the other 32 governors to approve a change in the constitution, which would then have to be voted on by the 1,366 exchange-seat holders. The exchange has called for a committee report by July 17, and will seek the SEC's opinion. Lufkin does not intend to be put off. His firm's prospectus declares bluntly that if the constitution is not amended, Donaldson, Lufkin will go public anyway. If the stock exchange then drops it from membership, the firm...
Without comment, he released a hitherto-secret report by a Johnson Administration antitrust task force headed by Phil C. Neal, dean of the University of Chicago law school. The group recommended new laws that would empower the Government to break up companies in industries "where monopoly power is shared by a few very large firms." It proposed a "Concentrated Industries Act" that would apply when four or fewer firms controlled 70% of an industry with $500 million a year in sales. Each firm would be forced to reduce its share of the market to no more than 12%. The scheme...
...that the Neal proposals to break up bigness would only reduce U.S. industrial efficiency and competitiveness in world markets. The chances seem remote that any of the recommendations will be written into law. Congress always has trouble agreeing on antitrust-law amendments, and the controversial ideas in the Neal report are political orphans...
...thing that's attractive about the Senate," he remarked," is that it makes a good pulpit. If a Senator wants to talk about people who are starving, then the press has to report what the says. If he wants to visit a ghetto, there will be some cameraman to follow him. . . . Bobby Kennedy knew this. I think he showed how the office could be used...