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...more local participation in approved projects,?' and to "withhold authorization and construction of all but urgently needed projects." He asked Congress to "establish interest rates for Government loan programs that will induce private funds to participate in their financing." He plugged for postal-rate increases and argued for user charges (levied against plane operators) on federal airway facilities...
...been lost by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. after eight-year court struggle. Bowing to a U.S. Court of Appeals order, FCC reversed its earlier decision and ruled finally that A.T. & T. cannot ban use of "Hush-A-Phone" shields, which slip over speaking end of telephone and permit user to speak without being easily overheard...
...looked to millions of viewers on CBS and NBC. The trick was done not by mirrors but their electronic equivalent: the new Videotape Recorder, a 900-lb. machine that captures images as well as sound on magnetic tape and can play them back instantly-or when ever the user wants them-with fidelity approaching the original picture. It was the first time that TV had used Videotape in covering the news, but its experimental use in the few weeks since the networks got the machines from California's Ampex Corporation* has persuaded broadcasters that it is the peephole...
...AIRWAY USERS' TAX is under serious consideration by U.S. Government. Though no firm program to charge airlines for airport and airway operations has been worked out, Budget Director Percival F. Brundage feels that "this is an area where some kind of user charge may be practical...
...proof of the pudding is in the eating, and the eating of this particular pudding is being done right now. All last summer and through the fall, Eisenhower and Dulles decided to let the pudding steam, hoping that time would settle it in the end. Dulles tried the user's association which was neither practicable nor even based at all upon the realities of the situation. When it fell through, he gave up. For obvious reasons the French, British, and Israelis have not given up. In the present crisis, American blustering disinterest is not enough...