Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Uneasy lies the tawny head of Brazilian Beauty Queen Lúcia Petterle, 22, crowned Miss World in London last month. A cold blast from Mecca Ltd., the Miss World organization, accused Lúcia of "wild outbursts" and of failure to sign the usual one-year contract with Mecca, worth at least $75,000 in personal appearances and endorsements. Lúcia pleaded that she was finishing up some modeling obligations. To take her mind off all this hassling, the third-year medical student sailed into eight final exams...
...read and respected writer. Since Happy Birthday, Wanda June is an especially inept movie, it would be comforting to report that Vonnegut has been victimized by the Hollywood barbarians, his work vulgarized beyond recognition. But it is not so. Vonnegut's own company (called, with inadvertent irony, Sourdough Ltd.) co-produced the film. His name appears in the traditional superstar's position above the title, implying not only box office eminence but a certain pride...
British entrepreneurs, however, see a like opportunity in Europe-wide marketing. One survey of 1,000 firms found 95% in favor of joining the Common Market. Big companies like British Leyland Motors and Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. are already firmly implanted on the Continent. Even without the tariff advantages of the Common Market, some British firms have been doing very well indeed. West Germans pay a duty premium to buy Perkins industrial machinery; Schweppes is popular in the French soft-drink market...
...BLAU Camera Press Ltd. London...
...knighted in 1969-is chief executive and principal voting shareholder of Associated Television Corporation Ltd. (ATV), the largest of the 15 regional firms that make up Britain's commercial TV network. ATV originates 25% of the network's nationwide programming. Much of ATV's $95 million annual business comes from other ventures as well, including records, music publishing (copyrights on most of the Beatles' hit songs), a theater chain, toys and bowling alleys. Last week in London, after ATV directors reported record 1970-71 profits of $10.4 million after taxes, Chairman Lord Renwick hardly exaggerated when...