Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ophuls struck up an agreement with the BBC, Polytel International, a television packaging company, and a British production company, Visual Programme Systems Ltd., to make a film on the Nuremberg trials, and their application-or lack of it-to subsequent events, particularly the American participation in Viet Nam. Ophuls set out to explore the contested-some would say outrageous-theory that Nazi genocide and tragedies like My Lai are somehow comparable, an idea that had wide currency a few years ago. He had been inspired by U.S. Chief Counsel Telford Taylor's book Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy...
Since word about Capraro's latest customer spread, business has picked up nicely for his firm, Jerry Guttenberg, Ltd.* The publicity is likely to continue. After trying on dress after dress in his Manhattan showroom last month, Susan Ford whirled around and sighed: "Oh, Albert. When I get married, you will design my wedding dress...
...doing research mainly for periodicals, encyclopedias, and commercial businesses. The fact-finding business still exists, but since 1954 it has fallen into the growing shadow of the Guinness Book. As the McWhirters tell it, a college teammate of theirs who had gone to work for Arthur Guinness Son & Co., Ltd. ("the largest exporter of beer, ale and stout in the world," as the book faithfully records) decided that there ought to be a recognized authority for settling disputes in pubs, and commissioned them to produce one. They sat down, consulted their accumulated lists of useless facts from newspapers and other...
...past few months Pie Face International has made some 60 successful deliveries in the Los Angeles area, hitting such celebrities as the Rev. Ike, Country Singer Diana Trask and Psychic Peter Hurkos. In Minneapolis, for the same amount of dough, Pie Kill, Ltd., has left more than a dozen victims pie-eyed. In St. Petersburg, Fla., Pies Unlimited has claimed 78 victims, among them the assistant metropolitan editor of the St. Petersburg Times, billing clients from $50 to as high as $300 per job. San Diego's whipped cream mafia, which charges only $20, has scored 20 times, including...
...Britain's most prestigious investment banking houses, N.M. Rothschild & Sons and S.G. Warburg & Co., were barred from participating in a $20 million bond issue for Marubeni, a Japanese trading company. In a startling admission, officials of the lead bank in the deal, London's Kleinwort, Benson, Ltd., admitted that they had acceded to pressure from two other participants in the underwriting, the Libyan Arab Foreign Bank and the Kuwait Foreign Trading, Contracting and Investment Co. If Kleinwort had not given in, said its chief, Sir Cyril Kleinwort, the Arabs would have invested their money elsewhere. But other London...