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...connived with Western Electric, its $1.6 billion-a-year manufacturing subsidiary, to buy some competitors, freeze put others, and systematically "suppress improvements and developments," e.g. the hand phone was developed in 1907 but was not introduced as standard equipment until 1927. Furthermore, A.T.& T. bought equipment solely from Western at inflated prices (on which it pocketed the profits) then went before public utilities commissions to plead for higher rates on the ground that equipment costs had risen...
...your Dec. 26 item, dealing with the cause of Napoleon's death, it seems odd that the French magazine Arts, which now charges the English with inventing a verdict of cancer to suppress news of a tropical disease contracted on St. Helena, doesn't know that the same charge was made in 1937 by Raoul Brice, Lieut. General of the French Army, in a book called The Riddle of Napoleon. He says the malady was an abscess of the liver complicated by amebic dysentery contracted on the island-approximately the sense of your article. He also flatly accuses...
...city's finest brothel, now that Saigon has been shut down as a sin capital). The distinguished wife of a provincial governor snatched the microphone from Norodom's hands and told the congress: "Let's face the truth. We know it's impossible to suppress effectively prostitution in our country...
...unjustly jailed for rape, and he does it without resorting to tricks or metaphysics. Tony Winsor, the accused, and Margaret S. Groome, a shy girl who falls in love with him, are quite satisfactory in their roles. They might be even better, however, if they could suppress a tendency to shout. An additional and unnecessary note of wildness is added by the direction if Michael Harwood, who made his actors speak much faster than they should...
...Abuses of the power in federal agencies to suppress information of value and interest to the nation were never so rampant as now." Thus, the American Civil Liberties Union last week summed up a report on the suppression of Government news by official agencies, usually hiding behind the subterfuge of classified information. Government secrecy is not a partisan issue, the report made clear; the Truman Administration was guilty of the same kind of suppression. But, it added, "invisible government is now worse than at any time in many years...