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...Personal Clout. But Kalmbach also provided some distinctly profitable services to the President. He not only handled the complicated purchase of Nixon's estate in San Clemente but had the clout on his own to get the Government to make thousands of dollars worth of improvements on the property that were charged off to "security," including a $388.78 exhaust fan for the fireplace. It was Frank DeMarco, Kalmbach's partner, who helped arrange Nixon's controversial gift to the nation of his vice-presidential papers, a donation that the President claimed as a $482,000 deduction...
Most experts are convinced that the Arabs will eventually move beyond such cautious investments to ones that have more political clout. One reason: they genuinely, though wrongly, believe that U.S. support for Israel stems partly from a Zionist hammerlock on U.S. business, and are eager to break it. One industrial area that the Arabs are certain to aim at is so-called "downstream" oil activity-refining and marketing in consuming nations. Kuwait is already considering buying a large chunk of Gulf Oil stock (from whom is not clear...
...reminds us why, as a root of our visual culture, we still need great museums. Organizations like the Met, the Louvre, or (presumably) the Hermitage can be pachydermatously insensitive to the confused needs of their public. But when they move, they move with weight. They can deploy enormous diplomatic clout to get loans, bring together constellations of work that could never be assembled under one roof, and surround the whole with rigorous scholarship. "Masterpieces of Tapestry" is such an event...
...Dreamy Clout. At Dentsu, that could be more than mere hyperbole. The diligence of the 5,000-person work force is legendary, and the lights of the agency's 15-story glass-and-concrete head quarters near Tokyo's Ginza regularly glow late into the night. Competing admen joke that "the first people on the streets each morning are the ragpickers - and Dentsu men hurrying to work." In seeking new business, the firm's account executives are the most aggressive in Japan; they often refer to calls on prospective clients as attacks. Each summer a group...
Dentsu gets only 3% of its business outside Japan, but it wields the kind of clout over its home market that American admen can only dream about. The agency places about a quarter of all the print ads in Japan and four out of every five rich prime-time TV commercials. Of its 5,000 or so competitors, the closest rival is the Hakuhodo agency, which has billings of less than $3,000,000. One reason for Dentsu's preeminence: because of its money, drive and just plain bigness, it can buy up prime print space and broadcast time...