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...many firms in a stronger position to expand. In addition, foreigners, worried about the political and economic uncertainties in Europe and elsewhere, are shopping in greater numbers to buy up or into American companies. For example, a U.S. crane producer, Time Manufacturing, recently sold out to an Irish auto distributor, and a Swiss pharmaceutical corporation is now dickering to buy an American food firm...
...cases. They include a series of showcase trials in Memphis, in the heart of the anti-porn Bible Belt. Leading the fight is Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry Parrish, 32, father of three and an elder in the First Evangelical Church. Last October Parrish won the conviction of a Memphis distributor and a Los Angeles producer of hard-core films. Since then, Parrish's score has been five obscenity convictions and two acquittals. Now he has the producers, distributors and local exhibitors of Deep Throat on trial, along with Harry Reems. Seven other cases are pending, including one involving the movie...
...with Geis after a dispute over money. She and her husband Irving Mansfield then went on to demonstrate that they understood the new hustle better than anyone. As old show-business hands, they appreciated the value of contacts and details. It was not uncommon to find Susann at a distributor's warehouse greeting the truck drivers who would deliver her books to the store. In fact, the Mansfields practically wrote the book on modern literary promotion. The color of a Susann dust jacket was carefully chosen for television appeal. Once on, Jackie, who died in 1974, quickly realized what...
...shareholders $22 a share. Aztec executives resisted, saying that the offer was too low. Aztec solicited other suitors, among them Southland Royalty Co. and Houston Natural Gas, which between them shoved the bidding to $32. Then Houston dropped out, leaving Aztec to Southland, a Fort Worth oil and gas distributor with annual revenues of $65 million. At week's end at least 90% of Aztec's shares had been tendered to Southland, giving Aztec a new majority owner and enriching investors who bought the stock early. But there could be problems. Late in the week, the Big Board...
...Israel's small but vocal band of about 400 active feminists is making an issue of local censorship of Playgirl magazine. Steimatzky's Agency, a Tel Aviv-based book and magazine distributor, gave up censoring female nudes in Penthouse a year ago, but it still insists on blacking out the male genitals in copies of Playgirl. Explains Proprietor Yehezkel Steimatzky, 75: "Everybody is used to nude women, but nude men are new on the Israeli market, and I am afraid it would upset the status quo." The feminists have filed a suit demanding an end to Steimatzky...