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...five years the Bridgeport, Conn., city government and police force had been under extensive federal investigation. Apparently frustrated by the lack of results, the FBI decided to try an old-fashioned sting. The bait was Thomas Marra Jr., 28, a convicted car thief awaiting sentencing. Marra's father and uncle held a $100,000-a-year contract from Bridgeport to tow stolen cars-or did until last May, when motorists complained that equipment had been pilfered from the recovered autos. The FBI plan: Marra would offer Police Superintendent Joseph Walsh $30,000 to reinstate the contract. Walsh agreed...
Executive relocation services, which in the past have concentrated on finding new homes for employees on the move, are now looking for ways to deal with the two-career dilemma. New Horizons Corp. of Stamford, Conn., has created a subsidiary that acts as an employment agency specializing in finding jobs for spouses. Another Connecticut-based relocation firm, Home Buyers Assistance Corp., has developed the Job Information Bank, a computerized catalogue of likely employment openings for spouses with about 150 companies in Connecticut and New Jersey. Explains Benno Curtis, senior vice president of Home Buyers Assistance: "If AT&T brings...
DIED. Samuel Meek, 85, who as overseas manager of the J. Walter Thompson Co. helped build it into the world's largest advertising agency; in Greenwich, Conn. A former managing editor of the Yale Daily News, Meek was instrumental in helping two of his ex-staffers, Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, to obtain the financing to launch TIME magazine in 1923. Meek, who served on the Time Inc. board of directors for 48 years, joined Thompson in 1925 and expanded its fledgling international operations to 35 offices on six continents before retiring as vice chairman...
...have begun operating, or sharply expanding, cargo-plane services of their own. Flying Tiger Line of Los Angeles, the largest U.S. all-cargo carrier (1980 revenues: $713 million), ships everything from oil-drilling equipment and Pharmaceuticals to machine parts, chemicals and cut flowers. Emery Air Freight Corp. of Wilton, Conn. (1980 revenues: $551 million), operates 62 aircraft serving 130 airports in North America, Europe and the Pacific. Federal Express of Memphis flies 60 jets delivering small packages overnight. Federal Express is so confident about its ability to maintain service despite the strike that last week it started a $7 million...
...headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Chairman Edward Jefferson had gathered some 60 top advisers, secretaries, chauffeurs and the pilots of the company's jets to celebrate Du Pont's victory in the greatest takeover struggle in American corporate history. Only 160 miles to the north, in Stamford, Conn., Conoco executives met in Chairman Ralph Bailey's office for their own celebration. One vice president walked up to the bar and jocularly ordered, "Seagram's on the rocks...