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Beck's attorney, Edward Bennett Williams, protested that the question had "no relevancy whatever to any legislative purpose." McClellan bristled. "I think it does," said he. "In spite of his efforts not to be helpful, I think that your client has been very helpful to the Congress, and [the investigation] has shown them definite areas where they should legislate and must legislate if the honest working people of this country are to be protected from such rascality as has been going on in this union...
...Boeing 707 jets at a cost of $36 million. Rather than tie up its own working capital or dilute its lines of credit, it is dickering for a lease. National Equipment plans to borrow the money from institutional investors, buy the planes and lease them. National Equipment's client will rent each plane for eight years, and pay off the full purchase price in rental installments. The lessee will also pay interest on the loans and a fee (usually ¼% to 2%, although some go as high as 6%) to the leasing company. Says National Equipment President...
...each) for such varied industrial giants as General Electric (A Is for Atom), United Fruit (Bananas? Si, Señor), American Telephone & Telegraph (The Voice Beneath the Sea), Du Pont (The Spray's the Thing), the New York Stock Exchange (What Makes Us Tick). Sutherland gets his client's point of view across with suave indirection. He has found it no easy job persuading tycoons that moviegoers resent being pounded over the head with a sales spiel. Many sponsoring corporations have so enthusiastically adopted this concept of the non-irritating huckster that their names, as in Richfield...
...faulty memories. When, at last, the exhausted prosecution rested, Lawrence called only two witnesses to bolster his own case. The frustrated Attorney General was not even given the chance of cross-examining the defendant. Confident that he had the case won, the defense counsel decided not to put his client on the stand...
...broker must know more about the meeds of his clients that the client knows," he noted. "One of the most rewarding factors is the caliber of people you run into," he added...