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Brown & Williamson Tobacco, a subsidiary of British-American Tobacco Co., has all but wrapped up a deal to pay $200 million for Manhattan-based Gimbel Brothers, one of the nation's oldest department store chains. Lloyds Bank of London plans to take over Los Angeles' First Western Bank & Trust Co. for $115 million. A battle has erupted between Norwegian Shipping Magnate Hilmar Reksten and Britain's P & O Steam Navigation Co. over Texas-based Zapata Corp., a shipping, oil and real estate conglomerate. In the midst of P & O's negotiations to buy Zapata...
...Godkin Lectures, founded in 1903, are run by the John F. Kennedy School of Government in memory of E.L. Godkin, a 19th century British-American journalist and editor. The lectures must deal with some aspect of "the essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen...
...raffish collection reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart's Beat the Devil-added color to the story. There was Elmyr de Hory, the slightly flamboyant art forger who is the principal figure in Irvine's book Fake! Another good friend is Gerry Albertini, an idle millionaire with dual British-American citizenship who, apparently as a favor, once kept Irving's Hughes manuscript in his safe on the island...
...atoll in the Indian Ocean known as Diego Garcia, as the London Observer has noted, is "one of those ink specks of the British Empire which were acquired in a fit of absence of mind during the Napoleonic Wars and have rarely been heard of since." More will be heard of it in the future. In 1971 the U.S. will begin to build a joint British-American air and radio communications center on the tiny island. The facility will provide support for British and U.S. planes and ships and will be available as a potential alternative to the U.S. communications...
...amount of profit a company can take out of the country. Most of the nationalized companies were retail outlets, breweries or other small businesses that he eventually plans, in the second stage of his "revolution," to turn over to cooperative management by blacks. Big foreign producers, such as the British-American copper companies, were not among those nationalized...