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...Suddenly these places, characterised by the pleasure-exterminators of Isis as dens of “prostitution and vice”, seem bigger than mere resorts of casual entertainment....
...“Yes, it’s true,” says Eli Cohen, head of Israel’s Union of Exterminators, sitting in his office on a gritty block of south Tel Aviv, with its walls adorned by pictures of snakes....
...On his return to New York he worked alternately as an exterminator with a fumigating company and as a private detective. He and Klapper formally divorced in 1946....
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...Gideon Adler at Investec said of Mr Brown: “He did some good deals – one of them in the US for Western Exterminator, which built up their pest footprint – and he stripped some costs out of the business as...
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