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...firms that are allowed, even encouraged, to compete with one another. The firm's mainstay remains McCann-Erickson, which bills more than $1 billion annually in ads from a long list of blue-chip clients, including Miller Brewing and Exxon. The Marschalk agency, which was a small outfit when McCann-Erickson bought it in 1955, is now one of the fastest-growing U.S. ad firms, handling such heavyweights as Gillette, Heublein and Paine Webber. Erwin Wasey, a West Coast firm that joined the Interpublic fold in 1963, and Detroit-based Campbell-Ewald, a 1972 acquisition, have also prospered. The parent...
...London restaurant, Spenser replies: "I don't do assassinations." But he does do bounty hunts. The price: $2,500 a head, plus expenses, for the capture, dead or alive, of the nine terrorists involved. Spenser's marks are members of the so-called Liberty group, an anti-Communist outfit dedicated to preserving white rule in Africa...
...they have continued to benefit from the big money politics of the Republican Party, securing campaign contributions from men like W. Clement Stone and textile magnate Roger Milliken, not to mention the millions from Richard Viguerie's direct mail outfit...
...make really big money. In July, Houston's special "fence detail" arrested a middle-aged veteran salesman with a major drilling-equipment manufacturer and confiscated $580,000 worth of stolen hardware. Police say the man apparently purloined the equipment from his employer and then, through a dummy rental outfit that he set up, leased it to a legitimate rental company. His take, according to police: about $150,000 every three months...
...around the Yard for the first two weeks in a track outfit with your study card rolled up like a baton...