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...next time whites try to illegally clear our land, perhaps we should get out and shoot the people in the bulldozers," contends Michael Benson, a 19-year-old Navajo and a freshman at Wesleyan University...
...20th biggest U.S. agency last week joined with the largest agency in France and the second largest one in Britain to form an international advertising network. Manhattan-based Needham Harper & Steers, which had billings last year of $115 million, made the deal with Britain's S. H. Benson and France's Univas, the international arm of Havas Conseil. While they did not merge, they created a company called Benson Needham Univas, or BNU. Its $300 million in combined billings is expected to make it the largest ad network in Europe and the tenth largest in the world...
...deal was signed in Manhattan by the three agencies' chiefs: Needham Harper's Paul Harper, Havas Conseil's Jacques Douce and S. H. Benson's E. W. ("Micky") Barnes. Though each company will retain its name in its home country, it will operate under the BNU banner in foreign markets. Plans call for each agency to buy an estimated 20% share in the equity of the other two and to exchange some directors with each. Marketing information will be traded on an unusually broad scale among BNU's 49 global offices, and there will...
...Needham Harper, whose accounts include Campbell Soup and Xerox, the new arrangement formalizes a three-year affiliation with S. H. Benson, which has offices in London and throughout the Commonwealth. Havas Conseil is an attractive partner, partly because its parent company, Agence Havas, is 56% owned by the French government. In France close ties to the top can be an asset for any newcomer attempting to traverse the bureaucratic maze. Through a subsidiary, the French agency also has exclusive contracts to operate in the Soviet Union, East Germany and Yugoslavia. That arrangement will give Needham Harper an entry into...
...citizens of a strange world. We are the products of an cra that has vomited up Silly Putty and Vietnam. Norman O. Brown and Milton Berle, Nelson Rockefeller and John Lennon, the Mets and the Chicago cops, Benson and Hedges 100's and LSD, Rex Reed and the Singing Nun. Are these the best of times or the worst...