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...that assigns frequencies to ham operators and taxi fleets, TV stations and aviation controllers. It is trying to clear the maddening interference-ridden nighttime AM radio band and the general clutter that hampered police communications during the Watts, Newark and Detroit riots. When people complain about excessive telephone or telegraph rates, or that radio-controlled garage doors are fouling up aircraft communications, or that shrimp-boat captains are uttering obscenities on ship-to-shore frequencies, it is the FCC that takes the rap. Besides all this, the FCC grapples with Comsat and community TV antenna development, not to mention countless...
...Berry, son of a Welsh town alderman, he and his brother William started their careers at the turn of the century with a sixpence monthly, Advertising World; with their profits they built a publishing empire that grew to 70-odd magazines and 31 newspapers, including London's Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times...
Understandable Error. The end is nowhere in sight. Last week a European subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph floated a $50 million issue. Honeywell was devising final terms for a $30 million offering to be sold later in the month, and National Biscuit Co. also announced a $30 million issue. Underwriters predict that U.S. companies will soon announce plans to sell as much as another $200 million worth. "People have been flabbergasted by the volume," says Zurich Banker Hans...
...members of the law faculty for suggestions on what directions the school should take and who Griswold's successor should be. Pusey also had to sift through proposals from alumni, consulted with fellow members of the Harvard Corporation, polled the 30-man board of overseers by telephone and telegraph. He followed the same procedure in seeking a Divinity School dean to replace retiring Samuel H. Miller...
When two companies agree to merge and then the deal falls through, neither side is likely to be very happy about it. Last week, after International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. called off its proposed get-together with American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., the reaction was not at all usual: sighs of relief were audible in the front offices of both companies...