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Colorado (where marijuana sale can constitute a capital offense), Rhode Island, and Oregon, have had similar test cases. A Rhode Island state court is still considering the issue. In the other two states the statutes were upheld...
...hottest new ad agency (other clients: Braniff airlines, Benson & Hedges 100s) when it picked up A.M.C.'s $12 million account last June. The full measure of the agency's upstart audacity will become evident by the time its client's '68s go on sale next week. Abandoning the teasers, Wells, Rich, Greene will start hurling its barbs directly at Detroit's Big Three...
...week for a married man with children) for more than three months. Faced with that drain on its treasury, the union is preparing to raise strike assessments for workers still on the job from $1.25 to as much as $21 a month. As for Ford, sale of its 1968 models is scheduled to begin Sept. 22, and the 90,000 cars already in dealers' hands should last for three weeks after that...
Rhodesia, says the Sunday Times, produces six key commodities for sale abroad: tobacco, sugar, asbestos, copper, chrome and iron. According to the newspaper's careful study of world markets, Rhodesia today "is selling all the asbestos and copper she sold before, around a third of the chrome, almost half the iron ore and a third of the tobacco." Only on sugar have the sanctions worked. As a result, Rhodesia will earn some $150 million this year, selling goods in defiance of U.N. sanctions-goods that enter world markets bearing false bills of origin from other countries...
...dialing systems to Belgium and Switzerland, built Europe's longest coaxial-cable network. The company's foreign-based operations, however, have always left it vulnerable to worldwide upheavals. During World War II, for example, Behn succeeded in saving his corporation from disaster only by hurriedly negotiating the sale of several overseas holdings. Trying to strengthen the company at home after the war, Behn rushed headlong into the domestic-appliance field, buying up Capehart-Farnsworth Corp. (record players, TV sets, radios) and Coolerator Corp. (refrigerators, air conditioners). Both lost money, were finally abandoned...