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India's leader, it turned out, also had some reservations about Khrushchev and Bulganin and their performance while in India. But Nehru was considerably less outspoken about this. He sent his Cabinet a formal note (allowed to leak to the press) describing the Russians' anti-Western speeches as embarrassing, especially in view of India's position of neutrality between the Western and Soviet blocs. But they were guests, the Prime Minister explained, and could have been silenced only with "great difficulty...
...Robert Porter, general counsel and secretary of Charles Pfizer Company, manufacturing chemists, testified that his company had hired Broady to find out how the secret formula of a new drug (Tetracycline) had leaked to competitors. (Earlier this year Pfizer sued Bristol Laboratories, E. R. Squibb & Son and the Upjohn Co. for $50 million, charging infringement of patents.) Pfizer, Porter testified, had paid Broady to shadow 50 of its employees. Broady also tapped the telephones of Squibb and Bristol-Myers on his own initiative, but found no leak...
Heinemann was horrified and mystified when his telephoned trade secrets and sales tip-offs began to leak like a faucet...
...NOTED WITH INTEREST THE REACTION IN YOUR OCT. 31 LETTERS COLUMN TO YOUR OCT. 10 STORY ON THE CONTINENTAL MARK II WHICH ERRONEOUSLY STATES THAT "PRESSAGENTS LET WORD LEAK THAT POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS WOULD BE CHECKED FOR SOCIAL STANDING." SUCH RUMORS ARE NEITHER TRUE NOR WERE THEY INSTIGATED BY THIS DIVISION. THE CONTINENTAL MARK II IS SOLD BY THE FORD MOTOR CO. TO FRANCHISED DEALERS, WHO IN TURN MAY SELL IT TO WHOMEVER THEY WISH...
...build up interest, pressagents let word leak that potential customers would be checked for social standing. As a result, many buyers sent in pedigrees, along with deposit checks on a new car. The president of a big insurance company sent a three-page biography, listed his clubs and well-placed friends. All told, 2,100 orders have come in.* Production will be limited to about 4,000 cars yearly, less than expected demand...