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What color is Santa Claus? Some U.S. department stores are installing black Santas for their black customers. In Detroit's J.L. Hudson emporium, mothers and children have their choice of lining up for eight white Santas or two black Santas. But 75% of the blacks have chosen the white Santas. It is perhaps sad to impose racial politics upon the mythologies of children, but the reasons for the choices are intriguing. The simplest explanation may be that children have almost always seen only white Santas, thus the black man looks odd in the role. But maybe some...
...best buy you can make." In an appeal to the austerity mood of corporations, Cessna notes in ads for its new 414 twin turbo engine business plane that "you can't buy a pressurized twin for less"-a mere $137,950. Even the haughty emporium of Abercrombie & Fitch claims to hold the line on prices for sporting goods, billing itself as New York's "Tight Money" center...
...race. It was a financial flop. But one of the drivers was Bill France; after finishing fifth, he decided to concentrate on promoting races. By last week, France had made Daytona the capital of stock-car racing, his Daytona International Speedway was the sport's No. 1 emporium and he himself was indisputably king of the stocks...
Krackerjacks, the hippy clothing emporium, is opening a new store closer to Harvard Square. The owner said yesterday that it will replace Williams clothing store on the corner of Mass. Avenue and Plympton Street in January...
...estimated billion dollars a year is going into such specialty foods, and virtually every self-educated epicure in the country today has his favorite Delikatessen, whose virtues he will describe in endless, lip-smacking detail. Dallmayr's, a dim, medieval-style emporium with vaulted arches, displays its caviar and Japanese shrimp on cracked ice (artfully hiding its modern refrigeration equipment), while live carp, perch, pike and rainbow trout swim in ornate marble fountains. Hamburg's 150-year-old L.W.C. Michelsen's offers a scientific index to its 1,000-odd spices, exhibits Australian apricots, French bread baked...