Word: firm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Mozambique, where he was on a 15-day junket, Diggs last week professed his innocence. But months before leaving the country he used some $8,000 raised by his friends to hire a lawyer from the firm headed by famed Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams. If convicted, Diggs faces up to five years in jail on each count, and fines totaling...
These efforts, plus small additions to existing facilities, will increase world capacity by less than 4% a year, while most experts agree that the market will grow at a rate of 5% for the foreseeable future. Only one firm, Alumax, a joint venture of AMAX, the large U.S. mining company. Japan's Mitsui & Co. and Nippon Steel Corp., is attempting to cash in on the shortage by investing in new plants in Oregon and South Carolina-a mighty $800 million gamble...
...instant-camera market, and Kodak's stock has plunged from a 1973 high of 151¾ to last week's 42⅛. What is more, Berkey's is not the only suit Kodak is contesting. Others have been filed by Pavelle, a tiny New Jersey firm that went bankrupt in 1975, and by GAF. There also is evidence that the Justice Department may be preparing an antitrust suit against the company...
...Travolta clan has not yet become the Barrymores of Bergen County it will not be for want of the firm support and encouragement of Helen ("a very sensitive, giving woman," says Johnny) and Sam ("a very gentle, sensitive man") Travolta. Sam played semipro football and baseball, worked in the tire business to keep the family dreams within reach. Helen, who was one of the Sunshine Sisters on Hackensack radio during the '30s, joined a local stock company after she married Sam. "She was a great, great actress," Sam says. Adds Helen: "They used to compare me with Barbara Stanwyck...
Morgan was promptly fired. OCI directors claimed he was acting "individually and without the authority or consent" of the intelligence unit when he planted the LEAA-funded device on Sabo. Morgan did not suffer: he quickly landed a job as investigator for Friedman's law firm and was subsequently appointed probation officer, another LEAA-created job. dispensed by local judges...