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...retailers operating in a single metropolitan area. Hudson's gross last year was $220 million (v. Macy's $517.6 million), its net about $5.5 million. Northland, the Hudson-owned shopping center northwest of Detroit, is the world's biggest (11,000 parking spaces, 106 stores); Eastland, another Hudson center northeast of the city, is only slightly smaller...
...make sure they did not miss any segment of the market, the Webbers set up Hudson's Basement Store, first in the basement of the main store, and then in the Northland and Eastland branches. Operating as a separate unit, the Basement Store, with its own lines of lower-priced merchandise, now constitutes the big store's toughest Detroit competition, even has a separate suburban branch...
20th Century City. Architect Gruen, famed for spacious shopping centers (Eastland in Detroit) and a well-publicized zeal for turning downtown areas into car-free malls (Kalamazoo, Mich.), designed the slab-shaped buildings slim and high to take advantage of the island's Manhattan view and allow for landscaping. The lower buildings, varying in height and snaking along the island's length, would be topped with gardens and windbreaks for recreational facilities. The air-conditioned pedestrian concourse below would be sunlit (through glassed holes in the roof) and undulating to kill the monotony of long straight corridors...
Responding to the Eastland charges, H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History and national sponsor of Sane, said the committee's motive "is to discredit the whole peace and disarmament movement by linking it to communism...
...That sensitivity was one of the factors in the appointment of Bobby Kennedy as U.S. Attorney General. As a tough political negotiator beholden to no Democratic faction, he might be able to placate both House Judiciary Committee Chairman Celler, an all-out liberal, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman James Eastland, an archsegregationist from Mississippi, in the filling of the new federal judgeships...