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...profit squeeze has led many firms to diversify in search of new sources of profits. Some retail jewelers are widening their lines to include typewriters, radios, stereo phonographs and small appliances. Shrinking profits have hit such giant food chains as A. & P., National Tea and Kroger, though some others have relieved the pinch by selling more and more items besides food. The Jewel Tea Co. chain (277 stores) has hiked its profits since it added high-profit-margin nonfood items-including brassieres...
...chemicals out of water and carbon diox ide. They have known for more than one century that this vital food-making process-photosynthesis, the prime mover of life on eartn-is accompusned by chlorophyll, a strange, green substance whose molecule has a single atom of magnesium framed like a jewel in its center. Generations of chemists have tried to synthesize chlorophyll-and failed. But last week Harvard University announced that Professor Robert Burns Woodward, 43, already famed for synthesizing quinine, cortisone and strychnine, had turned the historic trick: he had built genuine chlorophyll-a, the kind that green plants...
...London embassy, which combines traditional Portland stone with straw-colored aluminum trim, has been sharply taken to task for being too brash and bright. In New Delhi, Edward D. Stone adopted the form of an Indian temple and wrapped it with a lacy grille that lights up like a jewel box at night. The New Delhi embassy has been so widely admired that it now stays open on Sundays to accommodate the swarms of Indian visitors, while its dramatic use of the grille has brought this device, long a traditional part of Hindu temples, back into high architectural fashion...
...checks. In England, the local tax can be saved by showing a U.S. passport and having the goods shipped to the airport or ship, or directly to the U.S. In Switzerland, the tourist can cut about 15% off the list price of watches by some haggling (a reliable 17-jewel watch costs about $25, a self-winding watch about $40). In Belgium, best buys are handmade lace in Bruges (at Durein) or Brussels (at Diane Dirgent), hunting rifles from Bury Donckier in Liege and cut diamonds in Antwerp, where they sell for 30% to 50% less than in New York...
Such trips to the jewel box still have not solved the long-range Hearst financial problem. Rather, the sales have merely raised an anxious question in Hearst city rooms across the U.S.: Who's next? A few of the remaining 13 Hearst papers, e.g., the San Antonio Light (circ. 107,483) and the Albany Times-Union (circ. 67,629) still look strong. But even the San Francisco Examiner, Hearst's first paper, which proclaims itself "the monarch of the dailies," faces serious challenge as the city's largest newspaper. In the last ten years, while the Examiner...