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Christmas Jingle. Elsewhere, creativity is much more subdued and businesslike. Last week Stone's 800 salesmen were calling on the drugstores, supermarkets and discount stores in which American places most of its cards to make certain that they are ready for the biggest single rush of the year. Christmas accounts for half of all greeting-card sales (followed by Valentine's Day, Easter and Mother's Day); well-wishers this year will purchase 7 billion cards altogether. Most buyers like their art and inspiration messages solemn and simple...
...Wozchod bank, financing exports from Switzerland, Italy, West Germany and Scandinavia, will thus parallel the activities of Russian banks already established in the West. The biggest of these is the Narodny Bank of London, established in 1911 and now the busy occupant of an eight-story building in London's City. The Narodny bank does 90% of its business in East-West trade transactions, discounts (at a fat commission) bills of sale of Western exporters who have shipped East; by doing so, it saves them a three-to six-month wait for money and makes trade with the East...
Farm Bureau Federation formed to pool farmers' purchasing power and made it one of the U.S.'s biggest farm coops, in 1926 founded a mutual auto-insurance firm that became Nationwide Insurance Companies (3,000,000 policyholders, $760 million assets), then after World War II took the idea of little people helping little people to CARE, ot which he was the first president; of pneumonia; in Columbus...
...should be different. The main swarm of Leonids should be back at the same point where they were intercepted by the earth 133 years ago. Astronomers who have predicted a substantial, if not spectacular shower, are hopeful that the earth will again pass directly through 1866 I's biggest clump of orbiting debris...
...make it: starting from the top with connections, or working up from the bottom with forbearance. Lew Opler, a sophomore in Lowell House, spent a month of last summer experimenting from the bottom. On Aug. 21, he knocked on the door of Richmond Recording, one of New York's biggest music publishing houses, and asked the receptionist if he could see whoever was in. He was introduced to the general manager and handed him a carefully-assembled tape of twenty original folk-rock songs. The general manager clicked on the tape, listened for perhaps ten seconds, and said "That...