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...blonde dancing with Richard Nixon (TIME, Jan. 29)? The national photo services were flooded with calls. The mystery Cinderella with the 38-in. bust line turned out to be Susan Snyder, 27, the 5-ft. 8-in. wife of a Xerox Corp. employee who intends to turn the famous photograph into the family Christmas card...
...free time to rebut auto-company commercials. The FTC charged four big food companies (Kellogg, General Foods, General Mills and Quaker Oats) with monopolizing the breakfast cereal market, and tried to block a merger between two large drug firms (Parke-Davis and Warner-Lambert). Last month the agency accused Xerox of illegally muscling competition from the $1.7 billion copier market...
...will be equipped with a Xerox 2400 copier and an A.B. Dick Expediter offset duplicator. The machines were supposed to be in operation December 15 but there were technicians still working on them part time yesterday...
...Xerox, says the complaint, controls 60% of the overall copier market and fully 95% of the business in "plain paper" copiers, which reproduce on stock that does not need to be chemically treated. To redress such dominance, the FTC proposed a series of sweeping measures that might allow other firms to copy Xerox's ubiquitous machines almost as faithfully as the machines copy whatever is put inside them. Xerox, the FTC said, should sell off its controlling interests in British and Japanese copier companies. Also, the Government wants Xerox customers to have the option of buying all Xerox equipment...
...promising to fight "every aspect" of the FTC's case, Xerox Chairman C. Peter McColough saved his heaviest fire for the patent-giveaway idea. Said he: "What is being challenged here is the very basis of the patent system-the concept that an inventor should be awarded exclusive rights to his invention for a period of time." The Government has, in fact, challenged that idea a few times before. In the interest of promoting competition, General Electric was forced to pass out patented electrical know-how to competitors in the early '50s. But rarely if ever...