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...several important counts. It marks only the second time in recent years that the FTC has sought to break up an alleged monopoly-normally a job left to the Justice Department. Further, the commission did not base its case on either of the two standard antimonopoly statutes-the Sherman and the Clayton antitrust laws. It leaned instead on a broad and seldom used section in the basic FTC act outlawing "unfair methods of competition in commerce...
...Democratic Congresswomen Barbara Jordan of Texas and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke of California and Republican Congressmen William S. Cohen of Maine and Alan Steelman of Texas are completing an experimental four-week cram course on how Congress operates. The informal instructors range from such old pros as Kentucky Senator John Sherman Cooper and former House Speaker John McCormack to such Washington-wise Harvard academicians as Economist John Kenneth Galbraith and Professor James Q. Wilson. The experts are offering the quartet not only vital inside tips on how to run their offices but also the details of some of the major legislative...
...SHERMAN UNION (B.U.). Two Black Plays tonight...
...musical number portrays the selection of an author for the Declaration of Independence, with each member of the selection committee fobbing off the assignment on another, and all joining in a jaunty chorus that parodies, fleetingly, the idea that any of them should be singing or dancing at all. Sherman Edwards' songs are usually reserved for important occasions like a speech on the shared immorality of slavery, or the apparently telepathic communications between John Adams and his wife, but they remain bumptiously banal...
DELAWARE. Democrat Sherman W. Tribbiff, 49, coasted into office on a kind of reverse landslide: the land simply slid out from under his opponent, Republican Incumbent Russell W. Peterson, 56. A research chemist with a Ph.D. who left a $75,000-a-year job at Du Pont to run successfully for the governorship in 1968, Peterson had won a deserved reputation as a reformer and innovator; among his credits was a widely praised coastal zoning law, enacted in 1971, that barred polluting industries from building plants along Delaware's 381-mile shore line. But Peterson's fortunes suddenly...