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...Washington as well as Wall Street, Carter Burgess, 45, last week moved up from the presidency to the chairmanship of widely diversified American Machine & Foundry Co., succeeding Morehead Patterson, who died fortnight ago. His acquaintance with both places should be useful: AMF faces an antitrust accusation of conspiring to restrain competition in the bowling industry, and a slowdown in its military contracting helped to cut AMF's first half-year sales 11%, to $185 million. Burgess, once president of Trans World Airlines, was an Eisenhower era Assistant Secretary of Defense, joined AMF in 1958. Burgess intends to push...
...sanguinary." Thus it came as a surprise last week when Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against the two in a Manhattan federal court. The charge: that AMF and Brunswick had conspired with each other, and with the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America, to restrain trade by refusing to sell to businessmen who wanted to open bowling alleys in areas that the association had designated as "overbuilt...
Heartened by Roman Catholic Church support for their demands, some 1,000 striking workers in Barcelona gathered around the palace of Archbishop Gregorio Modrego y Casáus, seeking more aid in their dispute with employers. When police pushed to the scene, priests mingled with the protesting mob to restrain both workers and police from violence. Finally the archbishop himself appeared, to urge calm and send the workers on their...
...railroad and airline mergers that would help to eliminate duplicate facilities. Where the Government has previously tended to focus chiefly on the antitrust aspects of mergers, greater weight now seems likely to be given to purely economic considerations. The President pointedly ignored requests by the rail unions that he restrain mergers which might endanger jobs...
...18th century might have gained a fair architect, but it would have lost a unique engraver. Neither the church nor the nobility were in the mood to spend on new buildings, and so Piranesi turned to drawing and engraving what he could not build. No laws of structure could restrain him now; he could let his fancy race across each plate and create an opera-set world that could never have been built in stone. He did his famous prisons while on a visit to Venice-great caverns filled with festoons of clanking chains, soaring arches and lacy bridges that...