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...phone made by Nokia's rival Siemens quickly showed up on a Siemens fans' website. Nokia plans to track down the hackers - so look for more explosions to come. Family Values Vs. Share Value Call it a family feud: At the BSkyB shareholders' meeting last Friday, Daniel Summerfield of U.S. pension fund CalPERS and British fund USS demanded that 72-year-old chairman Rupert Murdoch resign because of his recent installation of his 30-year-old son James as chief executive. Critics say BSkyB is a family affair too close to the elder's News Corporation. Murdoch Sr. allowed that...
...London tabloid. Others were British soldiers on leave from their units in West Germany. The ferry was about three- fourths of a mile from the harbor when something went very wrong. "All of a sudden there was the shock of the boat shaking and listing," recalled Passenger Rosina Summerfield. "It continued to fall over until it was completely flat on its side. The people were screaming...
...PIRG report also named Summerfield's Furniture Co., National Radio and Television Co., and Boston Furniture Sales Co. Spokesmen for the three denied Monday any charges of deceiving the consumer...
Died. Arthur E. Summerfield, 73, Dwight Eisenhower's Postmaster General and campaign manager; of pneumonia; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A ninth-grade dropout, Summerfield built up one of the country's largest Chevrolet dealerships during the Depression. His 1940 Michigan campaign work for Wendell Willkie started his political career; by the 1952 Republican Convention, he was able to deliver a key bloc of delegates to Eisenhower. In return, Summerfield was appointed Eisenhower's campaign manager. Republican National Committee chairman, and finally Postmaster General...
Postmaster General Ed Day has ordered the January and February issues of the departmental house organ, Post Service News, destroyed. Reason: a glowing report by former "General" Arthur Summerfield, containing "highly inaccurate information" about his eight-year stewardship of the nation's mails. When news of Day's censorship reached Utah's Republican Senator Wallace Bennett, he took to the floor of the Senate, announced himself "shocked" at the banning, and inserted the entire Summerfield report in the Congressional Record for all to see. Day might ban or burn the Record, said Bennett, "but that...