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...memorialize the immigrants, he proposes a massive, vertically ribbed cone, with ramps inside and out, to be called the "Wall of the 16 Million...
Just completing a wholesale reshuffle is General Foods, after Procter & Gamble and General Motors the nation's third biggest advertiser, with billings last year of $111 million. Within the month General Foods has fired one of its four agencies outright (Foote, Cone & Belding), stripped a major account from another (Benton & Bowles), and rejiggered product assignments between the remaining two (Young & Rubicam and Ogilvy & Mather). In the process, General Foods showered $17.5 million in new accounts on two of the hottest agencies in the business: 13th-ranking Doyle Dane Bernbach, whose sophisticated soft sell for Volkswagen and inverted hard sell...
...long run, the reason behind the General Foods shift should be of greater concern to Foote, Cone-and to the advertising business-than the specific loss of billings. The reason Foote, Cone was fired, explains Arthur E. Larkin Jr., General Foods executive vice president, was "an unavoidable difference on basic policy in respect to product conflict." Translated, this meant that Foote, Cone had recently taken on Ralston Purina and Hills Bros, coffee, both fiercely competitive with General Foods products. Although auto companies, cigarette manufacturers and soapmakers have long forbidden their agencies to handle other products in the same field, food...
...make a dollar," Richard Cone mailed eight packages of marijuana home from Panama. When he returned to Manhattan and picked up his parcel, U.S. customs agents arrested him. Minutes later, while walking to a Government car, Cone confessed; he freely gave evidence that helped earn him a five-year sentence for smuggling narcotics. Later he appealed, basing his argument on the Supreme Court's controversial 1964 decision Escobedo v. Illinois, which ruled that when investigation shifts to accusation, police must tell all suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel-and that any confession made without such warning...
Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (New York, Vermont, Connecticut) rejected Cone's claim that his confession was inadmissible under Escobedo because he was not warned of his rights although the arresting customs agents had reached the accusatory stage-in short, the time when they felt they had their man. By a vote of 7 to 1, the court bypassed Escobedo and ruled instead that Cone's admissions were purely voluntary...