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...that it is being noticed where it matters. It is must reading at the White House, on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in the Government. The praise of NBC's John Chancellor, former director of the Voice of America, is typical: "They've done more than the original prospectus. It has impact. There's a lot to read in this town, but I think people spend a little more time than usual with this...
Entitled "Paper Profits," the C.E.P. report is as dry and statistic laden as a stock prospectus. It notes that the paper industry has been generally slow to install antipollution devices and processes, despite their ready availability. Owens-Illinois and Weyerhaeuser are important exceptions; both companies clean up most of their plants' effluents. Less than half of the 131 mills surveyed have satisfactory air-pollution controls; many dump raw wastes into U.S. waterways. According to the report, St. Regis, Potlatch and Diamond International have particularly poor records...
Warning and Reassurance. The Company, the prospectus solemnly states, "commenced business as a small-scale consulting firm, but since 1964 has branched out into the active conduct of upholding democracy and honoring commitments." At present, "the business of the Company consists primarily of acquiring and destroying real estate." Richard Nixon has been Chief Executive Officer since Jan. 1, 1969 ("Prior thereto, Mr. Nixon devoted his life to securing his present position"), and Spiro T. Agnew has been Vice President since the same date ("Prior to his joining the Company, Mr. Agnew did not exist"). The Company has organized a "Cambodian...
...After deduction for miscalculation and wastage in the Pentagon and corruption and pilferage in Southeast Asia," the prospectus says, the Company expects to raise a net of $50 billion from the American people this year. The proceeds will go partly for "payments and benefits to certain government officers in Viet Nam and their mistresses. See 'Remuneration.' " Prospective investors are duly warned that "this offering involves a high degree of risk." However, they are reassured that "over the longer period, investors shall receive honor and retention of face...
Pale Contrast. Friends to whom Tauber recited such sentences at lunch urged him to show the prospectus to a publisher; and Workman Publishing Co., a small Manhattan firm, brought it out as a booklet indistinguishable in appearance from a real prospectus. The joke is now earning a modest profit, which Tauber intends to donate to war relief. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out almost immediately, and Workman has ordered a second printing of 10,000. The publisher has also begun advertising the parody with appropriately sedate "tombstone" ads in the New York Times. The ads make...