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...Nick Panella, 39, a graduate of The Bronx, Manhattan's Hunter College, and most of the world's drug trade centers: New York, Rome, Istanbul, Marseille, Montreal and Paris. Dark and compact, Panella describes his appearance as "the stereotype of the Italian wise ass"-a distinct asset in the trade. "Up in East Harlem," he says, "nobody's going to introduce any bright-eyed, 6-ft. Ryan to anybody worth talking to in drugs. But I fit right in. They'll sell to someone who looks like...
...productions"). For another, PBS planned to try exactly what Shannon suggested. It set out to cover the convention's official proceedings only. PBS's two-convention budget was $290,000; the commercial networks', about $20 million. Rather than compete, PBS was manifestly trying to make an asset of a liability. Announced NPACT President James Karayn: "We will be the network of record...
Repeatedly last week McGovern expressed his pleasure that the campaign was returning to issues instead of focusing on personalities. Yet there is increasing evidence that the Nixon-McGovern personality differences might be McGovern's best asset (see TIME Citizens' Panel, page 14). Contends Richard Scammon, a top Washington expert on the electorate: "The best thing that George McGovern has going for him is that he ain't Richard Nixon. He had better stick with that." But there are mystifying crosscurrents moving at this stage of the campaign. Even as a Harris poll was showing that the Eagleton...
...license to make Wankels in a deal that will eventually cost it $50 million, any manufacturer who decides to build a rotary engine will presumably have to pay royalties to Curtiss-Wright Corp., which owns North American patent rights to the design. Largely on the strength of that asset, Curtiss-Wright stock shot up from 1 ⅜ to 59 ¼ earlier this year, though it has settled back in recent weeks to around 45. Officers of machine tool firms are hoping to produce assembly-line equipment for what could be the biggest car design change ever made...
...time-honored principle that female nudity is an asset to any sales campaign, the West German subsidiary of Japanese Fuji Film wanted a naked woman to adorn one of their five ads in Stern, West Germany's second largest illustrated weekly (circ. 1,600,000). Admen Günther-Jürgen Bahr and Claus Harden of Düsseldorf winced. Nudes are so common in German magazines that Fuji's ad would look like any other page in Stern. How to get the reader to look twice? Bahr and Harden's answer: a nude with...