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...unprecedented application of the Clayton Act, Federal District Judge Warren J. Ferguson last week ordered the Times Mirror Co., publisher of the Los Angeles Times, to divest itself of the San Bernardino Sun and Telegram, a pair of papers it acquired in 1964 for $15 million. San Bernardino is 60 miles east of Los Angeles, and the company contended that its acquisition of the two papers did not change the journalistic situation in that area because there never had been much competition between the Times and the San Bernardino papers. But the judge took a different tack...
...about to change anything. He says that he has learned to control his celebrated temper and swears that he no longer dashes off such angry letters to critics as the one he sent to Harriet Van Home when she was TV colum nist for the N.Y. World-Telegram: "Dear Miss Van Home: You bitch. Sincerely, Ed Sullivan...
...Dick's career benefited repeatedly from her Quaker faith and stout support. When rumors of a secret fund threatened his vice-presidency bid in 1952, Hannah wired his running mate to be "guided aright" and stand up for her son's integrity. Dwight Eisenhower read the telegram over nationwide radio and obeyed her orders...
...memory of naval officials to have seven brothers on active duty at the same time. Idaho communities celebrated "Newman Day"; John's home town of Twin Falls proudly proclaimed itself the "Home of the Newman Navy"; and Secretary of the Navy Paul R. Ignatius sent a telegram expressing his and President Johnson's pleasure at John's induction. Asked if he would like to be stationed with one of his brothers, John replied: "No, I'm going out on my own." That was just as well, since brothers may not serve together on any naval vessel...
...Sihanouk, who has lately been troubled by smatterings of Communist insurgency in rural areas, reacted quickly. He recalled his ambassador from Peking, fired two pro-Chinese ministers from his Cabinet and closed down all of Pnompenh's privately owned newspapers (one of which had printed the offending Chinese telegram). Sihanouk warned that he would break relations with Peking entirely "if China continues to insult us and interfere in our affairs." Then, knowing exactly how to jab the Maoists, he added that "the Chinese practice an imperialism stronger than the Americans...