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Dual System. South Vietnamese legal experts are also at work revising outmoded civil and criminal codes. Particularly confusing is a dual legal system inherited from the French. One group of laws was created for the central part of the country, which was administered by the Viet emperor; other laws were written for Cochin China in the south, which was an outright colony controlled by the French governor. The differing legal standards are still applied today. Fornication, for example, was made a crime in central Viet Nam, reflecting strict Confucian traditions. No such statutes are in effect in the sophisticated south...
...Even beyond the usual hysterical interest attracted by any new Beatles record, the appearance of Revolution and Hey Jude is special. It is part of the first package of releases by the Beatles' new company, Apple Corps Ltd. The firm was organized earlier this year to coordinate the group's multiplying business enterprises, which include films, television, music publishing and electronics. The specific mission assigned to the Apple disk label was not only to record the Beatles, but also to enable them to promote new talent. As John Lennon put it last spring, "We want to give people...
...other cases, a fresh marketing approach can rejuvenate a declining old name. Stephen F. Hinchliffe Jr. and Merle H. Banta, two young (35) former management consultants, set up Los Angeles' Leisure Group, Inc. in 1964 on the notion that they could do better than the "inventors, hobbyists and amateurs" in the business. They have. Among the seven outfits picked up by Leisure (1967 sales: $10 million) is Philadelphia's S. L. Allen & Co., whose famed Flexible Flyer sled, introduced in 1889, could claim nearly 100% of the market in the early 1900s. Leisure bought Allen, which had been...
Among the holdings they control from their law offices are the Marmon Group Inc., a diverse collection of businesses that last year had sales of $79 million, and the Colson Corp. ($12 million), a maker of food carts and other equipment. They also own a myriad of smaller companies in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Australia involved in mining and agricultural equipment, cement and fertilizer. Then there are 400,000 acres of timber and farmland in the South and Northwest, plus housing developments and shopping centers in Chicago, Las Vegas and Puerto Rico...
...emphasizing" toy guns, which usually means that they are not placing new orders. In Manhattan, Bloomingdale's and Stern Bros, have even taken their exsting stock off the shelves. Payson Sawyer, 35, one of Maine's largest toy distributors and leader of a citizens' group called "Toy Disarmament," has earmarked his entire stock of toy guns for a big bonfire this month. "Everybody talks about disarming the world, but we believe a practical step is to start at home," says Sawyer. His group is sponsoring a campaign in which children who surrender their toy guns receive buttons...