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...Strongest Leg. "Thanks to the dis count houses," says San Francisco Marketing Consultant Frank Meissner, "we in the U.S. are coming close to matching mass distribution to mass manufacture for the first time." All told, there are now an estimated 4,000 discount stores in the U.S., and the number is increasing almost daily. This year, discounters will open six new stores in Cleveland, twelve in and around Minneapolis, another twelve in Detroit and 20 in Los Angeles...
Inevitably, the swelling number of dis count houses accounts for an increasingly large share of U.S. retail sales (see chart...
Supporting this theory are the wealth of allusions that lead nowhere and the names that become meaningless anagrams ("Onhava," the capital of Zembla, becomes Navaho; ex-Zemblan can lead to dis-Zemblan, dissembler, resembler). Nabokov himself insists that "no book should ever have a deliberate message. It should be a combination of harmony and pleasure." If it is a key to a door, "the most important thing is for the key to work; it is quite unimportant what lies behind the door." Whatever meaning or non-meaning lies behind the door, any reader can delight in watching the greatest verbal...
...week's end the Shah took with him a firm commitment for increased U.S. military aid to Iran. Details were not dis closed, but from the State Department came word that the Shah was "extraordinarily satisfied...
...given Sunday, but laymen hardly know his name. He has far fewer disciples in the U.S. than either Niebuhr or Tillich; and even in Germany, young theologians find more impact in the Christian existentialism of Rudolf Bultmann (TIME, April 14, 1961). All this is fine with Barth himself, who dis owns the idea of a school - "except for my two sons" - meaning Markus, 46, a New Testament scholar at the University of Chicago, and Christoph, 44, who teach es Old Testament in Djakarta...