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Brown has scored more than four goals in only five games this season, while Harvard, despite a tougher schedule, has scored over four goals 13 times. Harvard has five players with over 20 points; Brown has one. Brown's top two scorers have half as many points as Harvard's Dave Hynes and Bob McManama...
...Tougher Job. This year A.T. & T. will invest more than $8 billion in expansion and modernization, a historic record for any U.S. firm. The spending is intended largely to improve service for A.T. & T.'s 101 million telephones. Service has become a problem in big cities like New York, Miami and Boston, where A.T. & T. has had to hire large numbers of new employees, many of them lacking adequate technical training and in some cases even high school diplomas...
...company is already underselling A.T. & T.'s WATS service (Wide Area Telephone Service), which allows a big user to make unlimited calls in a specific area for a flat fee. Many other firms have applied to the FCC for operating licenses. These competitors will make DeButts' job tougher. But if he succeeds in improving A.T. & T.'s profits, he will be worth the $350,000 annual salary the company has been paying to its chairman...
Second, the Government will become a sterner policeman of private enterprise. Responding to a surge of rising public expectations about corporate performance, Washington is stepping up its regulatory efforts. Nixon-appointed heads of federal agencies are already outdoing their Democratic predecessors in bedeviling businessmen with tougher rules on auto safety, toy safety, food and drug quality, truth in advertising, disclosure of financial information and other securities practices, as new regulations proposed last week by the SEC indicate (see BUSINESS). In 1970 Congress passed environmental protection and industrial safety acts that empower the Government to seek court orders banning certain methods...
...never want to experience it again." Even so, tighter party rule will almost inevitably mean greater political controls, and perhaps even an increased role for the secret police, as has already happened in Croatia. In their efforts to combat nationalism, Tito and his colleagues may end up being tougher than they really intend...