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Three years ago the U.S. Department of Justice took out after American News Co., biggest U.S. wholesale magazine distributor, and its subsidiary, Union News Co., biggest newsstand vendor. American, the Government charged in an antitrust suit, used its newsstand subsidiary as a weapon to grab exclusive national distribution rights for magazines, and Union (at American's direction) refused to sell any publication without American's consent. To end this restraint of trade and discrimination against publishers, the Justice Department went to court to force American to give up its control of Union News...
...secret service men, Nixon drove to 125th Street and set out on foot, stopping to ask several children about the Dodgers' winning streak, whirled in and out of the offices of the weekly New York Age Defender, paused in the next block to chat with a sidewalk watermelon vendor and assure him that he loved watermelons but did not have time to eat a slice just then. At the Carver Federal Savings and Loan Association, he accepted a new half dollar with the likeness of George Washington Carver on it, then whipped-around to the United Mutual Life Insurance...
...primary burden of responsibility for an illegal sale of alcoholic beverages to minors should rest with the vendor and not the minor unless the latter has falsified his age," the Governor said in his veto message...
...door to your heart's desires" This, of course, is all very fine for Yale, where the book is a standard text in English, Psychology, and ROTC courses. It has been my experience at Harvard, however, that few undergraduates are self-confident enough to approach a pocket book vendor or financially successful enough to blow 35 cents on a gamble. It might be propitious (pro-pish-us) then, to mention the high points of the text perceptively (pur-sep-tiv-Ice) and with acumen (a-kyoo...
Pushbutton Ticket Vendor. The New York Central has installed "Automaticket," the first self-service ticket vending machine in Manhattan's Grand Central Station. Built by General Register Corp., "Automaticket" has pushbuttons for 60 suburban stations, with the fares listed for each. The purchaser puts coins in a slot, presses the right button, four seconds later gets his tickets and change. If he puts in too little money, a lighted sign warns him to put more...