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Near Monopoly. One possible factor: Annenberg may have feared trouble with the Federal Communications Commission. His Triangle Publications company owns several television and radio stations, as well as TV Guide, Seventeen magazine, the Morning Telegraph and the Daily Racing Form. Renewal of Triangle's license to operate WFIL-TV in Philadelphia has been opposed by a former Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, Milton Shapp. He claimed last July that Triangle exercised "a near news monopoly in the Philadelphia area," and that under Annenberg's direction, news had been "censored, omitted, twisted, distorted and used for personal vengeance." Triangle...
...Nixon Administration, which seems determined to prove itself tougher on antitrust policy than the Democrats were, has lost an important round in its fight against corporate bigness. Last week a federal court refused to stop International Telephone & Telegraph, the largest conglomerate, from going ahead with one of the biggest mergers in U.S. history-the acquisition of Hartford Fire Insurance Co. The combination would raise ITT's assets by 50%, to more than $6 billion...
...defines as criminal is the "intent" to incite to riot. Thus the law prescribes a fine of $10,000 or five years in prison-or both-for anyone who "travels in interstate commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including but not limited to the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio or television, with intent to incite riot." The concept of judging a defendant's intent is not particularly unusual; there are such offenses as assault with intent to kill. In dealing with a person's frame of mind regarding civil disorders, however, large and ambiguous questions...
...most cogent objection is to the building's location in the heart of San Francisco's "Portsmouth corridor," natural valley between Telegraph Hill and the clustered towers of lower Market Street. The valley is covered with low structures that climb up Telegraph Hill, hugging its contours and accentuating San Francisco's natural rhythm of hills and valleys. It is an area of narrow streets and small lots, and zoning authorities thought they had forestalled any skyscraper-high structure by stipulating that total floor space in new buildings could not exceed 14 times the area of the site...
...responsibilities of the Federal Communications Commission have expanded as rapidly as the industry it regulates. Established in 1934 to supervise telephone and telegraph companies and the broadcasting industry, the FCC now oversees a vast realm that includes everything from transoceanic cables to communications satellites. For more than two months, President Nixon has been searching for a new chairman to take charge of the commission's expanding responsibilities. Some time this week, the President is expected to announce his choice for the nomination: former Republican National Chairman Dean Burch...