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...Phillips, whose decision has been pending before the FPC for twelve years the agency used its old yardstick of costs for the last time. It awarded Phillips rate increases totaling $5,700,000 a year, based on an 11% profit-over-cost return; Phillips had requested an 18% return...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Speaking softly and carrying a big yardstick to history, CBS's excellent series recalls The Times of Teddy Roosevelt...
Tolerance: Kennedy is widely regarded as a high-minded crusader for religious tolerance, fighting the battle against prejudice that Al Smith lost in 1928. His arguments against using religion as a yardstick in choosing a President are eloquent and moving. Yet he has not hesitated to play on the theme that the Democratic Party might lose the Catholic vote to the Republicans unless he is the presidential nominee-a suggestion that the New York Times's Washington Correspondent James Reston called "blackmail...
...take longer and treat a worker's psyche more carefully. In fact, the whole young field of industrial psychiatry is as rife with conflict as are the minds of its patients. One big problem, points out IBM Medical Director Dr. John Duffy, is that "there is no statistical yardstick" to measure the results of mental health programs, "since we aren't buying merchandise." Some businessmen still cling to the old idea that the worker's personal problems are his own business. But, as Dr. John Maclver, fulltime psychiatrist for America Fore Loyalty Group, says, "We have already...
...Interest. Shrewd, autocratic Walter Heller is the leader in a fast-growing type of commercial financing that only in recent years has become completely respectable. When banks lend money to firms, they do so on the basis of assets and good credit standing, a yardstick that often rules out loans to small or struggling businesses. Heller, on the other hand, does not bother himself about the borrower's credit, takes on firms with chronic management or financial ills as readily as sound companies that have fallen on hard times. Reason: he accepts a company's accounts receivable...