Word: client
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nizer pointed out, however, that he does not hesitate to defend a client unjustly accused of unpopular causes. He recently represented radio and TV announcer John Henry Faulk in his successful suit against Aware...
...search for a factory site begins in rows of grey filing cabinets jammed with information about every likely U.S. community. Then Fantus agents, frequently including Yaseen or Fulton themselves, prowl through the most promising cities, trying to keep their presence unknown. Besides looking for the resources and land their client needs, they check on civic attitudes and going wage rates, look over the school system to see if the town is forward-looking. They even make a point of finding out whether the local stores sell expensive or cheap lingerie, considering this an excellent way of determining whether the workers...
Truth with Wisdom. Fantus' blue-chip client list includes such names as Ford, General Electric, General Foods, Westinghouse and Anaconda. The company found Hershey Chocolate a suitable Canadian site ("I even went out and counted cows to make sure there was enough milk for their candy," says Fulton) and eliminated 45 locations before setting Sara Lee Bakeries down just a few miles from where it had been. When Fulton brought Rockwell Manufacturing Co. to Tupelo. Miss., the town was so grateful that it named a street after him. In recent years Fantus has expanded into surveying areas...
...Levy sat in on talks between Brunei Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. and the Brunei government designed to give Brunei a larger slice of revenue from private oil production (1962 daily output: 85,000 bbl.). Levy merely observed; by the time the delicate negotiations began, he had already given his client. His Highness Sultan Sir Omar Ali Saifuddin. "disinterested advice" about what he considered a fair price for both parties...
While the children are busy playing peekaBoo, Atticus acquires a more substantial nightmare. He agrees to defend a Negro (Brock Peters) accused of assaulting a white girl. "Whuh kine a man aw yew?" the girl's father (James Anderson) snarls at Atticus. In court he proves his client's innocence, but the jury convicts the Negro anyway; and when he tries to escape, a guard shoots him dead. Nor is the nightmare ended even then. The girl's father, a vicious redneck with more whisky in his stumphole than brains in his head, goes stalking Scout...