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...turn Interna tional Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and American Broadcasting Co. into a $2 billion telecommunications company was a good idea. Last week the FCC changed its mind. The reason for the reversal was simple: the merger is being strongly protested by the Justice Department's antitrust division - an agen cy that easily outranks the FCC in Wash ington's hierarchy. Bowing to the anti trust division's argument that the ITT-ABC merger might impede competition and open ABC public affairs pro gramming to pressure from ITT's foreign customers...
...significant step toward the economic integration of Asia was taken in Tokyo last Thursday, as the Asian Development Bank held its inaugural meeting. More than 500 delegates from 32 countries and nine international agen cies, including financial experts, ranking world bankers and top-level govern ment officials such as U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, unanimously elected Japan's Takeshi Watanabe, 60, president for a five-year term. At the same time, they also agreed to admit Indonesia and Switzerland as the bank's 31st and 32nd members...
...surprisingly, Don Herbert failed when he tried to sell his new series to commercial television. A few ad agen cies and sponsors showed some interest, but they could not entice an appropriate time slot from the big networks. "All those people said they liked it and were sure their families would watch it," recalls Herbert, "but they were just as sure that 'the masses' wouldn't." With a nationwide chain of 105 educational channels scheduled to telecast the Experiment series by next spring, the masses could-and should-prove them wrong...
...serious pressure for Malayan independence, he began training local men to take a hand in plantation management. At great cost, he pioneered the development of new grafting techniques and agricultural hormones that have produced higher-yielding rubber trees. By sharing his developments with the official Malayan rubber research agen cy and, along with other rubber planters, helping to finance it, he is now sparking the government's drive to help hundreds of small growers replant with high-yield trees. Last year Sir John's trees produced up to 1,000 Ibs. of rubber per acre...
...Agen, E. N. Bennett, H. C. Broun. H. C. Emmet, Jr., A. Horvitz, H. E. Keays, P. R. Lieder, J. R. McMillan, J. J. Marks, E. G. Mears, J. S. Nightingale, D. B. Priest, G. Putnam, Jr., V. F. Schoepperle, T. L. Small, J. Taussig, L. Wulsin, W. F. Zimmerman...