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Some Empire. They come to something like $4,000,000 a year. The Jax empire has spread eastward, now includes seven stores across the country, (the Manhattan branch is lodged in an opulent 57th Street town house), with an eighth scheduled to open in Southampton this May and a Paris outlet planned for next year. Hanson owns a house in Beverly Hills and a cream-colored Rolls-Royce. But best of all he likes his office. For there, in an upstairs crow's nest overlooking a strategically trained 15-ft. mirror below, Jack Hanson is master...
...helpless radarmen watched, the plane shot across the border. In less than five minutes, two other blips appeared beside the T-39. For the next eleven minutes, the radar showed the three planes moving eastward. Then, inexplicably, they veered west, and Captain Lorraine's training plane suddenly vanished. At the same time, residents in the East German village of Vogelsberg, 50 miles from the West German border, heard machine-gun and cannon fire overhead. Seconds later, they saw the U.S. jet, one wing shot away, cartwheel to earth...
...Federal Trade Commission's approval to buy Crown Zellerbach's St. Helena Pulp & Paper Co. in Oregon. It is also looking for new properties in the South, has taken over operation of a Guatemala paper mill in its first move abroad. In a deliberate reach eastward, it recently bought a Chicago envelope company and opened a new container plant in Kansas City...
...Parkinson's argument that the pendulum is now swinging eastward. The first signs of the shift, he feels, appeared in 1850 with the Taiping rebellion in China, followed closely by the Indian Mutiny and eventually by the Boxer rising of 1900. But the crucial date is 1905, and the crucial event the destruction of the Russian fleet by the Japanese. Since then, Parkinson feels, the "established prestige of the West" has been shattered. (The destruction of the Japanese fleet by the U.S. Navy in World War II does not seem to impress him.) Parkinson does not believe that Eastern...
...high conscience with which he served." At week's end, with no orations (at his request), Robert Schuman's funeral service in the Metz Cathedral was attended by five former French Premiers.*Eventually his body is to lie in a special mausoleum-to be built facing eastward across the Rhine...