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Joseph C. Kracht, 50, was named vice president and retail manager of Montgomery Ward (starting Aug. 1), the company's first retail veep in three years. A native New Yorker and Columbia University graduate, Kracht spent 13 years with Ward, then quit in 1950 to become a vice president at W. R. Grace & Co. and then to the same spot with Fedway Stores, a subsidiary of Federated Department Stores...
Dallas' Tecon Corp., the lively youngster of the construction business that underbid older firms to get the Contractor's Hill job, expects to finish by Aug. 15, and to make a profit of between 30% and 40% on the $4,100,000 it will receive...
...Fish Creek, Wis. is the home of the three-year-old Peninsula Festival, buried among the lakeside evergreens in Door County, 65 miles northeast of Green Bay. Conductor Thor Johnson (of the Cincinnati Symphony) gathers an orchestra of 40 standout musicians for two weeks (beginning Aug. 6). All nine concerts include unfamiliar or contemporary works, and usually play to full houses...
...ambitious musicmaking. Cities with major symphony orchestras try to find pleasant outside work for the musicians during the summer months. Philadelphia seats them in Robin Hood Dell (June 21-July 28), Manhattan in Lewisohn Stadium (June 20-July 30), Boston on the Esplanade overlooking the Charles River (July 5-Aug 20), Chicago in suburban Ravinia Park, Los Angeles in spectacular Hollywood Bowl...
...uranium refineries. One of the biggest stacks of ore lies outside the rich ($60 million in proved reserves) Mi Vida mine of Charles Steen, the onetime oil geologist who discovered Mi Vida when he was almost penniless, thereby touched off southeast Utah's first big uranium strike (TIME, Aug...