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Accepting the dictum that ''if you can't lick 'em. join 'em," old-line retailers are turning into discounters themselves. Discount sellers, who operate with a markup of 19% to 24% (v. 39% in department stores) have already captured nearly one-third of the nation's department store trade; and FORTUNE predicts this week that their sales in 1962 may well rise another 50%, to $7 billion. Two of the biggest U.S. department store chains-May and Allied-have branched into discounting. So have food chains such as Grand Union and Kroger, and five...
Ideals of love as high as Dido's demand much from a production if they are to be convincing. Dido, of course, rejects Aeneas because he intially succumbs to Fate's dictum that he leave her, but such conviction can emerge easily as prissiness, and its ruler, destiny, as mere farce. The principals last night did capture the opera's ideals; the chorus gave adequate support to the venture, the orchestra little; and the forces of destiny did not even pretend to their powers, nor did they exhibit that of singing ability...
Judgment at Nuremberg (Roxlom; United Artists). "I do not know the method," wrote Edmund Burke, "of drawing up an indictment against an whole people." The prosecution at the 1946 Nuremberg trials kept Burke's dictum carefully in mind, but such scruples do not inhibit Producer-Director Stanley Kramer (On the Beach) and Scriptwriter Abby Mann, who also wrote the 1959 television play on which this movie is based. Ostensibly, four Nazi judges are on trial. Actually, by vigorous and frequent implication, the German people are on trial, and in a specious process that rivals in travesty the show trials...
...longtime fashion dictum, verified daily in millions of beauty parlors, that great beauty requires great personal suffering. By that standard, there should be nothing so lovely as a woman's feet. Through the ages, female toes, insteps and heels have been pummeled, prodded and ultimately propelled into shoes that resemble the human foot purely coincidentally and only occasionally. The pointed-toe look, still so popular last year that a Texas doctor made a fortune amputating little toes, gradually gave way to a rounder toe before blunting off altogether into this year's square look. Once into the shoes...
...earth from catacombs of Rome" competes with a suggestion from the Christian Brothers of California to serve their newest wine "well chilled at cocktail hour." One in seven of C.D.'s readers is a non-Catholic-and that one is repeatedly urged to write in and challenge church dictum on everything from bullfighting to Evangelist Billy Graham...