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...topsy-turvy world, the accepted standards of business thrift and prudence go out the window. Companies in the EPT bracket have no hesitation spending money on extravagant projects. Example: Reynolds Metals Co., wanting to show off its new Jamaica bauxite mines, chartered an ocean liner and gave 130 bigwig guests an eight-day cruise to Jamaica and back. Of the total cost, the company really picked up only 18% of the check. The remaining 82% was EPT money which, if not spent, would have gone to the U.S. Treasury...
...went after bigger game. He got in touch with a patrolman named Louis Brackman, told him he wanted to buy police protection for a brothel he planned to open. In a series of tape-recorded meetings, Richter offered Patrolman Brackman $1,000 for himself and $2,000 for the bigwig in the police department who could make the fix. But after several meetings, Brackman finally reported the attempted bribe, and police swooped down on Richter's apartment and arrested him. Screamed the States: ARREST SPECIAL...
...National Chairman of a political party, would come to Cambridge in mid-afternoon. After addressing a seminar for a couple of hours he would be guest of honor at a dinner. Later the discussion would resume in the plush Littauer lounge. Sometimes, it would be another four hours, the bigwig called time and was spirited away to the airport or train station. Since the guest was exclusively the property of Littauer, the rest of the University never even knew he was in town...
Brazil's government is hostile to Lacerda, who has thrown verbal punches at many a government bigwig, from President Getulio Vargas down. But his reports were too well documented to be ignored. The foreign ministry replaced the charge d'affaires in El Salvador, recalled an accused consul from London, announced that a three-man commission would be formed to look into Lacerda's allegations...
...group. In 1949, when the war against the Viet Minh Communists began to get hot, Nguyen Van Hinh's group was sent to Indo-China. Nguyen Van Hinh and his pilots took old Junkers 52 bombers on raids across the Tonkin Mountains. Soon Nguyen Van Hinh was a bigwig in the French Far East Air Command, a leading member of Chief of State Bao Dai's military cabinet, and something of a national hero. Last week 36-year-old Nguyen Van Hinh, now a brigadier general, was preparing to take command of Viet Nam's first native...