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Whether they are pushing Perrier, Poland Spring or 20 plain, the highly competitive purveyors of bottled water rarely miss a trick. Now A.J. Canfield Co. has a new client for its bottled Natural Seltzer Water. Reads the back of the label: "An excellent water for all house-plants." In a chorus of ads on Midwestern television and radio stations, Canfield proclaims the wonders of Natural Seltzer when administered to a patient like that limping rubber tree in the corner. Rhapsodizes Vice President Alan Canfield Jr.: "When you water plants with our product, you're giving them food...
ENGAGEMENT REVEALED. Lee Radziwill, 46, fine-boned younger sister of Jacqueline Onassis; and Newton Cope, 57, San Francisco hotel and real estate millionaire; to be married in San Francisco this week. Radziwill, an interior decorator, divorced the late publishing heir Michael Canfield in 1958 and the late Prince Stanislas Radziwill in 1974. Cope, the widower of Real Estate Heiress Dolly Fritz, will also be marrying for the third time...
Elizabeth F. Canfield...
...Agnew and Ehrlichman), and Camp David (Ehrlichman). The material spoils of power are given prominent places in both books: the authors dwell on chauffeur-driven limos, deferring butlers and maids, posh furnishings, fancy restaurants, sumptuous Government repasts (Agnew likes to show that he's a connoisseur by having Canfield comment on the quality of food and wine), and above all, alcohol. Booze, according to these novels, almost swirls down the gutters of Washington's streets, greasing the wheels of efficient government...
THERE ARE ALSO more subtle attitudes at work in The Canfield Decision and The Company. For instance, Agnew's portrayal of Canfield makes him out to be similar to Henry II in his relationship to the assassination of Thomas a Becket. Canfield joins forces with certain devious elements, but only involuntarily at first and eventually in an indirect way. According to the evidence in the book, Canfield is guilty of lesser crimes than those with which he's finally charged. He's only guilty of misfeasance, not malfeasance (though he can't prove it because important witnesses have disappeared...