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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very late start. It was not until the mid-1960s that the firm hit its stride in the discount merchandise field. Today it is the third largest and fastest-growing ma jor retail operation in the nation. Sales in 1973 amounted to $4.63 billion and in creased 24% hi the first quarter of 1974. Kresge Chairman and Chief Executive Robert E. Dewar wants to lift sales to $12 billion by 1980 and leave current front runners J.C. Penney (No. 2) and Sears, Roebuck (No. 1) far behind...
Rubin grew up in New York City. In 1961 he graduated from Cornell with a major in wildlife conservation. He enlisted in the Green Berets "because there was a guerrilla war going on in Southeast Asia, and hi those innocent times I wanted to be part of it." He went to Viet Nam in 1962 with one of the early U.S. groups trained in counterinsurgency. He learned the language of the Rhade, a major Montagnard tribe (the one portrayed in The Barking Deer), and some-tunes acted as an interpreter between Montagnards and Vietnamese. The Rhade culture fascinated Rubin...
...scene in Atlanta's Civic Center resembled an industrial trade show as hundreds of customers drifted past display booths festooned with bright banners and posters. A revolving display in one booth vied for attention with a video-tape demonstration next door. Some salesmen engaged visitors hi animated discussion, while others passed out catalogues and brochures. The products they were promoting were not power boats or automobiles but colleges. Their customers were 1,000 high school students and their parents, drawn to the city's first national college fair...
Similar fairs are taking place hi other cities, sponsored by the National Association of College Admissions Counselors (N.A.C.A.C.). The fairs are higher education's newest tactic to combat a downturn in the rate of enrollment that threatens the survival of dozens of colleges-most of them private-and the financial stability of many more. Some 150 institutions, from Boston University (enrollment: 15,000) to North Carolina's Davidson College (1,100) paid $150 to set up booths for the daylong fair. Representatives of the American College Testing Program and the Veterans Administration were also on hand to advise...
...Hi, how are you? You had quite a day today didn't you. You got Watergate on the way didn...