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IN the dog days of last summer, International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., America's biggest conglomerate, surprised investors by agreeing to sell a clutch of household names that it had acquired in recent years. Among them were home builders Levitt & Sons, Avis Inc. and Hamilton Life Insurance. To ITT insiders...
President Richard Nixon is "an astrological island surrounded by water," according to Washington Astrologer Hal Gould. Nixon, whose sign is the earth sign of Capricorn, is surrounded by the three water signs of Pisces (Wife Pat and Daughter Tricia), Cancer (Daughter Julie, and the confirmation of Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz...
Subject to court approval, the parts to be severed are the Canteen Corp., Grinell Corp.'s fire protection division, Avis (Rent a Car) Inc., ITT-Levitt home builders, and the Hamilton and ITT life insurance companies. Geneen will have two years to dispose of the first two firms, three...
There are 733,000 licensed pilots in the U.S. and 129,000 light aircraft available for them to use. Most of the pilots cannot afford to buy a plane, and renting them is not always easy. Outside of Lease-A-Plane, the aircraft-rental field is a crazy quilt of...
Under normal circumstances, Madison Avenue would love Augustine Gizzi, a New Jersey truck driver and a true believer in advertising slogans. Trouble is, Gizzi not only believes, he goes out and acts on his beliefs. As a result, he has cast a legal pall over scores of sloganeers ranging from...