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...British battles have been waged more noisily than the fight for the nation's soap and detergent market. Warring over the $192 million-a-year business, Lever Brothers & Associates Ltd. and Procter & Gamble Ltd. have been spending some $45 million annually wooing housewives with everything from giveaway glassware and plastic daffodils to door-to-door sales calls by costumed "Fairy Snowmen." Now, under government pressure, the war-and the suds-makers-are taking on a new pitch...
...Despite all such uproar, there is little doubt that Lee's Samsung Group of 20 companies, with $55 million in annual sales, has helped South Korea to become an economically viable nation. The 20,000 spindles and 150 looms of Lee's Cheil Wool Textile Industrial Co. Ltd. have not only halved the price of worsted goods for Koreans but have also helped the trade balance by sales to U.S. clothing manufacturers. Lee's sugar refinery at Pusan, started in 1953, provided the nation with a psychological lift because it was built at a time when...
...while both the ministry and the company bore their share of criticism, Britain's defense industry contracts seemed to be the main target of the debate. Critics in the press and Parliament alike were quick to remember that the same thing happened only three years ago, when Ferranti, Ltd., repaid $12 million after acknowledging an 82% profit manufacturing Bloodhound missiles. Since then, there has been no significant change in the basis for contracting. The government still has no legal redress for excess profits...
Retorts Bernard Stollman, president of New York's ESP Disk Ltd., which produces and manufactures the Fugs records, "Man, action speaks louder than words. The Cambridge police have successfully intimidated Cambridge merchants. The Coop thinks it can choose its battle line. But that's wrong. Censorship is like pregnancy. If a woman is a little bit pregnant, she's pregnant, man. The Coop has a good reputation, but they're blowing the whole thing...
...First Amendment. His proposition: if a student will contract to serve as the Cambridge outlet for the Fugs records. Stollman will pay a commisson on sales and guarantee all court costs when the student is arrested. The plan obviously has great publicity value for ESP Disk Ltd. At the same time, he cheerfully suggests, it's a potentially great caper. Money, Fame, Excitement. A day in court; probably more...