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Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. was appalled. If only 25% of its 4,500,000 subscribers asked for asterisks, argued its lawyers, Pacific would have to spend $4,300,000 to convert its directories. Granting McDaniel's petition, they added, would hamper charity drives and put phone solicitors (one market surveyor has 10,000 of them) out of work. Moreover, the state legislature would have to enact new laws making it a misdemeanor to ignore asterisks...
Soft Pedal. After its amateurish debut, the supplement has graduated into a Sunday staple for both advertisers and readers. Many photographs bear the credit line Lord Snowdon (Princess Margaret's husband) and bylines are big: Ian Fleming, Lord Attlee, etc. Circulation stands at 1,200,000; the Daily Telegraph's Sunday edition started in 1962 with a phenomenal 1,400,000 only to level off around...
...Leaders. Nine issues in particular have spurred the 30 stocks that make up the Dow-Jones average. The greatest upward momentum was provided by American Telephone & Telegraph, whose shares have moved from 691 to 741 since they were split a fortnight ago. Chrysler and General Motors have also been front runners, helped by last week's report that U.S. automakers built 13% more cars in June than in the same month last year. All those cars sent up demand for gas and oil, buoying the shares of Texaco, Jersey Standard and California Standard. The other significant gainers...
...world's biggest company in terms of assets, American Telephone & Telegraph, is not in this industrial group, will be listed in next month's directory of the 50 leading utilities. Last year it earned $1.5 billion on sales of $10 billion...
From longtime admirers and antagonists tributes flowed in for the man who put a unique and inexpungeable stamp on British history. "I am deeply grieved at the loss of my oldest and closest friend," said Winston Churchill. "The Daily Telegraph," said that paper, "found itself on the opposite side of almost every major argument in which he and his newspapers engaged. But there was never any disputing the deep impact which he had upon his times." Wrote the Times: "He was that increasingly rare phenomenon in a standardized age, a personality quite uncramped by convention or inhibition...