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...Government took two jolting steps last week to eliminate discriminatory hiring and promotion practices in business. In one case, American Telephone and Telegraph Co. agreed to pay $38 million in back pay and raises to thousands of women, blacks and other employees who were discriminated against. The Labor Department also ordered Bethlehem Steel Corp. to improve its job opportunities for blacks by revising its seniority system, an area usually regarded as a key preserve of management and unions. The moves, the farthest-reaching the Government has yet taken to root out bias in business, sent a chill of concern through...
Novelist-Journalist Rebecca West celebrated her 80th birthday by receiving an editor of the Sunday Telegraph, who asked her, predictably, about Women's Lib. "On the whole, I am with it," said Dame Rebecca. Nothing else that she said was in any way predictable. On women writers: "They seem hopelessly defeated by their domesticity. When I turn their pages, I see not just a pram in the hall but a whole house filled with prams, prams sideways up the stairs, prams in the back garden." On women at work: "The population is divided into people who like work...
...Jerry Schneider, a 21-year-old U.C.L.A engineering graduate, studied Pacific Telephone and Telegraph's computer by posing first as a journalist and later as a customer. He learned enough to place commercial orders for telephone equipment simply by punching the right beep tones on his own touch telephone. He then picked up the equipment and sold it through a dummy firm. Incredibly, the telephone company let his unpaid bills accumulate for three years. The Los Angeles district attorney charged that Schneider stole $1,000,000 worth of goods in that manner, and the engineer drew...
...Hang-Up. Macom has run afoul of the telephone companies. American Telephone & Telegraph has long contended that no devices can be attached to phones unless A T & T approves and uses its own servicemen to connect them. Usually this involves not only an installation fee but also monthly payments to the local telephone company for use of a "foreign" attachment on its equipment. The phone companies contend that unapproved devices could foul up switching systems, leading to overlapping conversations and perhaps even injuring repairmen...
Though A T & T has not declared whether the Name Caller can really interfere with its circuits, a subsidiary, Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., sent letters to eleven stores asserting that they were violating phone-use rules by improperly advertising the device. Last month Mercer filed suit in federal district court in Los Angeles, charging that A T & T, General Telephone & Electronics Corp. and 41 of their subsidiaries violated antitrust laws by attempting to use Federal Communications Commission regulations to force the Name Caller off the market. The suit also contends that the telephone companies threatened to suspend the phone service...