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...other program in Argentina is currently aiding the Di Tella Institute, which is "the Ford Foundation of Latin America," according to Vernon. The Service has one resident advisor there, who helps the Di Tella plan its research projects in economic development. Visiting advisers are also invited by the Serv-for two or three month periods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAS Pushes Econ. Growth In 4 Nations | 3/11/1964 | See Source »

Hill's suit further contended that Baker told North American Lobbyist Black he could help North American get Government contracts through his Senate post. This, Hill claimed, led Black to assist Serv-U in getting North American's business. North American President John L. Atwood told the committee that Serv-U vending machines did $2,500,000 worth of business annually in North American installations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Silent Witness | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

John B. Gates, board chairman of Pan American World Airways' Intercontinental Hotels Corp., testified that Baker last summer introduced him to one Edward Levinson, a Las Vegas casino operator, Serv-U stockholder and sometime Baker business partner. Levinson wanted "to become associated with the casinos" at two of Intercontinental's Caribbean hotels, Gates said. Levinson withdrew after Gates told him that any deal involving Levinson's brother Louis, a shady character with a police record, would be "unacceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Silent Witness | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...BANKING. Baker got a seemingly inexhaustible line of credit through Bob Kerr's Fidelity National Bank in Oklahoma City. During 1962, Friend Fred Black Jr. testified, he and Baker borrowed more than $500,000 from Fidelity National, much of the money going to finance operations of Serv-U Corp. Through Baker's friendship with Kerr, Black said, he was able to borrow large sums. In 1962 he got one loan for $175,000 to purchase stock in the Farmers & Merchants State Bank in Tulsa, subsequently sold 1,500 shares to Edward Levinson and 1,600 shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Silent Witness | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

There were other enterprises, among them a travel agency in Washington and a Howard Johnson's motel in North Carolina, in both of which Baker had a piece of the action. But they were small potatoes compared with Serv-U, the Baker-Black-controlled vending-machine firm. Less than 24 months after it qualified to do business in California in January 1962, Serv U had been awarded chunks of the vending business at three major aerospace firms-North American Aviation, Northrop Corp., and Thompson Ramo Wooldridge's Space Technology Laboratories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Silent Witness | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

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