Word: coventionalism
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...dollars over the next three years and promises to undertake no new projects. But Canadian moneymen were skeptical that Impresario Zeckendorf could really restrain himself. So "Big Bill" had to go. His exit at Trizec followed virtually automatically, and the departure was sweet revenge for Britain's Second Covent Garden Properties Co. Ltd., which has a 24.5% interest in Trizec; six representatives of Second Covent Garden had been forced off the board of the U.S.'s Webb & Knapp by Zeckendorf last year. Zeckendorf was less concerned about his Canadian setback than his crash drive to rescue Manhattan...
...chateau dwellers in France's Loire River Valley, the vegetable dealers in London's Covent Garden and the truck assembly-line workers in Hagerstown, Md., probably have no idea of how closely their lives are linked to a New York and Chicago firm called the Fantus Co. Fantus is the world's largest and busiest company devoted to an increasingly important specialty: searching out new plant sites for corporations and advising job-starved towns on what sort of new industries they are best suited to attract. Last week it started work on the most far-reaching project...
...plants employing more than 1,000,000 workers. In 1962 it conducted 250 plant site studies in the U.S. and Europe that resulted in ground breaking for 70 new plants worth $100 million. Last month it submitted a report to the British recommending a new site for the historic Covent Garden produce market, which long ago outgrew its location among London's congested streets...
...York realty firm of Webb & Knapp, Inc., has sometimes been barely a step ahead of its creditors. It seemed a healthy and restraining influence on Zeckendorf's unorthodox dealings when 13 months ago he took on as his partners the London real estate firm of Second Covent Garden Properties Co. Ltd.-in return for $43,750,000 in needed cash and loan guarantees that Second Covent pumped into Zeckendorf's $400 million empire. The new British partners shrewdly insisted on one condition: anything they did not like would not happen at Webb & Knapp...
...continually harassed by Russian embassy officials who try to persuade him to return, and for a while his mother called him daily from Russia at Soviet government expense. Nureyev has no apartment of his own in London, in fact has little life of his own at all outside Covent Garden. Away from the dance, says a friend, "he's a monk...