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...subsequent talks, the delegates mainly discussed economic problems. The nations of the ASEAN alliance together rank as the fifth-largest U.S. trading partner, having increased two-way trade from $967 million in 1967 to $23.5 billion last year. The Administration is delighted that these free-market nations have far outperformed their Marxist neighbors, but is concerned that since 1983 the bottom has fallen out of practically all the region's export commodities, not the least of which is oil. As a group, the ASEAN delegates called for more American investment. In response, the U.S. asked for an easing of trade...
...staff at Los Angeles' 60-year-old landmark Central Library had long suspected that the four towers containing most of the library's books were potential chimney flues. The towers turned out to be just that as a conflagration engulfed the largest library in the West last week. More than 250 firemen fought the blaze for more than six hours...
...latest new, improved giant-size deal, which was unveiled last week, will join BBDO International, the sixth-largest U.S. agency, with Doyle Dane Bernbach Group (No. 12) and Needham Harper Worldwide (No. 16). Combining - annual billings of nearly $5 billion, the menage a trois is the biggest advertising group the world has ever seen--for now. Says BBDO Chairman Allen Rosenshine, who will head the new holding company, not yet named: "We are the biggest--but maybe only for ten minutes...
Because so many of the acquisitions are taking place among the largest agencies, a top tier is developing of superheavyweights that are several times as large as most other companies in the industry. Rankings in Advertis- ing Age, a leading trade journal, show that the ten largest U.S. agencies controlled about $27 billion in advertising billings last year. That is nearly 17% of the $162 billion that was spent on ads around the world. The leader was New York City-based Young & Rubicam, with 1985 billings of $3.57 billion, followed by the Ogilvy Group ($3.3 billion), Ted Bates Worldwide...
Both because of its irrational and chronic proclivity toward hitting tiny nails with the largest hammer it can find, and because of its fascist modus operandi, the Administrative Board must be abolished. Likewise, as we have said, the Vietnam-war era Committee on Rights and Responsibilities--which is periodically trotted out solely to punish left-wing political demonstrators without benefit of appeal to another court--must go as well...