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...Iran traffic is far beyond the rumor stage. TIME has seen proof in the form of hundreds of documents provided by Carlos Vieira de Mello, an international arms dealer who worked with the purported rug merchant, Hashemi. TIME has also examined secret records from the State Department's Office of Munitions Control and papers from private arms companies showing that U.S. tank engines and fighter-plane spares were routed to Iran through Canada and Britain. The records indicate that much of the trade is directed from London...
Private arms dealers like Hashemi and De Mello account for much of the sales to Iran. At Iran's insistence, Hashemi set up various business entities to try to conceal his U.S. connections: his R.R.C. Co. in Stamford with its rug-shop front; a subsidiary in London; a separate company, Zoomer Fly Ltd., also in London. Hashemi's brother Cyrus, who was president of the now-defunct First Gulf Bank & Trust, helped finance the Zoomer Fly operation...
Noxell is now undergoing a major expansion program. Nearly every year since Bunting took over, he has brought out new products or added to existing Lines. Among these new entries: RainTree hand and body lotion, Lestoil deodorizing rug shampoo and Noxzema antiseptic skin cleanser. This year the company will introduce a new line of Lipstick...
...finer things. He asked the Government to buy a $15,000 wool carpet and two chandeliers costing $3,500 for his federally funded office in Atlanta. Even the General Services Administration, not known for its thrift in dealing with ex-Chief Executives, balked. So Carter managed to buy the rug below list price for $12,600, and is making do with chandeliers worth only...
...Route 16 in the remote, rustic greenery of western Massachusetts lives a tall, slender, sophisticated man who spends his quiet days at a drawing board designing yachts. William G. Anderson 19 sketches in his South Natick hilltop home, which is decorated by wooden half-ship models an embroidered oriental rug, and a thick red leatherbound photo album, which records the almost two decades he spent entertaining foreign heads of state, prominent intellectuals and businessmen who wanted to see Harvard...