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...price slide, the FCC two weeks ago went out of its way to insist that investors had "misinterpreted" the aims of its inquiry. With that, A.T. &T. stock rallied for a 21-point gain to 611. The FCC insists its aim is merely to learn whether the yardstick it has long used to regulate A.T. & T. rates-the company's profit on its investment-is outdated. "We don't know if our rate-making philosophy is going to change or not," said FCC Chairman E. William Henry last week. "Up to now, the company and the agency have...
...retires, Pete Akers leaves a legacy of responsible investigative reporting that is still a yardstick in Chicago. "A newspaper has to be a watchdog," said he last week. "If the newspaper doesn't do it, who's going to? God! What would go on in a city like Chicago if the newspapers didn...
...possessed an inexhaustible spring of life in himself: his imagination, which had sustained him throughout the darkest years of his country's captivity, kept before him, day and night, the vision of the full, untrammeled, seething life in the free world. For him as for his friends, the yardstick of beauty was freedom." Personal freedom, he says, "is the one unarguable good on earth. The Communists have put forward another: not man, but the collectivity, not the individual, but the herd. What the West and the whole free world are trying to prevent is man being turned back into...
...Yardstick. Both the inmates and the hospital staff well knew "there were neither patients nor doctors but only jailers in charge of inconvenient citizens." As Almazov explains to a bewildered new arrival: "The reason you and I and all of us here are persecuted is that we don't conform, we haven't the mentality of serfs...
Chris Pardee can ignore his competition and concentrate on the yardstick again tonight in the high jump, and he may well rewrite his own Harvard record of 6 ft., 9 in. Ken Winters will again need to improve on his best vault to place high in a large field of pole vaulters...