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...ninth-largest industrial firm in the U.S. at the time. The ITT-Rohatyn deals included Continental Baking, maker of Hostess cakes, and Avis. In recent years Rohatyn's handiwork could be found in the Allied-Signal merger and the acquisition of Electronic Data Systems by General Motors. "Felix the Fixer" they called him on Wall Street...
...dimensions of the drama widened in Brazil, a little more light was shed upon some of its shadowy supporting players. Wolfgang Gerhard, who seemed to have been Pedro's ubiquitous fixer, was, said Austrian Consul-General Otto Heller in Sao Paulo, a fanatic Nazi who brought out a fascist propaganda sheet called Der Reichsbrief (The Reich Letter). By the age of twelve, Gerhard had become a member of the Hitler Youth and later boasted of being a committed Nazi. Nonetheless, in the Austrian town of Graz last week, Gerhard's 26-year- old son Adolf firmly rejected the stories told...
Every so often, an inexperienced reporter attempts to describe a dwelling as "attractive" or "impressive." This is incorrect. In journalese, all homes are either modest or stately. When confronted with a truly ramshackle fixer-upper, knowing scribes will deflect attention to the surrounding area, describing the residence as "off the beaten track" or "in a developing area," that is, a slum. Distaste for the suburbs is conveyed by mentioning "trimmed lawns and neat flower beds," thus artfully suggesting both compulsiveness and a high level of intolerance for life in its hearty, untrimmed state...
Unable to bear the thought of life without his faithful interpreter and fixer (the movie's most suspenseful sequence shows Pran desperately negotiating for his employer's life with rebels who have captured him), the reporter dismisses broad hints about what the fate of a Cambodian native who has served a Western employer might be if the Communists seize power. When he and some fellow journalists (among them the good John Malkovich) try to concoct a false passport the gesture is too little, too late. Pran is sent to forced labor and forced re-education in the countryside...
...accorded the active political role she obviously relishes. Says another senior diplomat: "She can now perceive that she has a historical place in the scheme of things, something beyond her wildest dreams. On the substantive side, she may genuinely feel that she can help out as the self-perceived fixer." Observes an Argentine banker: "From her point of view, it's better to have people paying attention than simply to be an ex-dancer living in Spain. And who knows? Maybe some day we'll all have to say thanks to her." -By Hunter R. Clark. Reported...