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Boats Without Brine. Virtually every boat manufacturer has had the same experience. C. P. Leek & Sons Inc., a New Jersey company that built clippers 40 years before Ben Franklin flew his first kite, began making luxury items standard equipment on their Pacemaker yacht five years ago, has seen sales soar from $1,000,000 to $14 million. Its largest model, a 53-ft. motor yacht, offers all the amenities found on Chris Crafts, plus built-in television, bathtub, washer-dryer combination and ironing board, symbols of domesticity that would wrinkle the brow of any old salt...
...companies have been taking eagerly to cosmetics. Bristol-Myers was one of the first to beautify itself by buying Clairol. Among recent mergers: Chas. Pfizer and Coty, American Cyanamid and Breck. Last week, in a reverse play that took both the drug and the cosmetics industries by surprise, Revlon, Inc., whose sales of more than $195 million in 1964 made it the second biggest U.S. cosmetics maker (after Avon Products), announced that it is buying a well-known U.S. drug company...
...growing retailers in the florist industry are the owners of the nation's 3,500 garden centers, which have upped their sales by more than 30% in the last seven years, today account for better than a third of total industry sales. Manhattan's Goldfarb Flower Shops, Inc., the biggest U.S. florist (1964 sales: $10.8 million), earns only 8% of its income from its retail shops. Source of almost all the remainder: eight giant garden centers spotted along the East Coast from Maryland to Long Island, which park up to 1,000 cars each and sell everything from...
...value and, I think, the greatest worth to his country." The President then awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to "Ted" Clifton, military aide to both Johnson and Kennedy, who was retiring from the Army at 51 to become executive vice president of Manhattan's Thomas J. Deegan Co. Inc., a public relations firm...
...that he had a knack for comprehending the problems confided to him by well-to-do people he met at cocktail parties or on the golf course. Gornitzka soon found himself busy helping the friends of friends, eventually organized a full-time ministry around a nonprofit corporation called Direction, Inc...