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During a 50-year career, Inventor-Industrialist Sherman Fairchild, 68, has tinkered successfully with everything from aerial cameras to semiconductors...
...technically impressive but a financial red-inker. Fairchild sales have declined steadily for six years, although the company managed to earn $1,000,000 last year on a $62 million assortment of space and defense subcontracts. With no new major space contracts on the horizon to bid for, Sherman Fairchild's dream will have to remain just that for the time being...
...regimentation of the baseball card-buying public." For example, it issued check lists to exploit the kids' appetites for complete sets of its 576 numbered cards. As Tocker sees it, Topps has thus "monopolized a part of trade or commerce within the meaning of Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust...
...that was mild compared with the woes of New York Giant Coach Allie Sherman-a believer in the old-fashioned theory that preseason games don't count. For three straight years, Sherman's Giants have been the champions of the National Football League's Eastern Division. But now they look more like chumps-at least on TV. They lost to the Minnesota Vikings, 21-7, and Sherman insisted: "The defense looked good." Then they ran into the Green Bay Packers and Halfback Paul ("Golden Boy") Hornung, back from a year in Coventry for betting on games. Hornung...
Inevitably, the regulators are targets of aggressive lobbying, and occasionally they get involved in a scandal with a Bobby Baker or a Sherman Adams. One of their traditional weaknesses is that many appointees come with little firsthand knowledge of the fields they will regulate. The men who regulate million-dollar industries are not highly paid-commission chairmen get up to $21,500 and powerful examiners get about...