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...company following his graduation from Dartmouth has held every post from sales clerk to basement-store manager. Like his son, chunky Fred Lazarus ("retailing is our life") also worked up from the basement. He became Federated's No. 1 man in 1945, transformed the corporation from a loosely knit cross-ownership of stock to a solid chain and trebled its sales by buying new stores. He will continue as top man, has no plans to retire, hopes this year to guide Federated to the U.S. department-store sales lead over front-running Allied Stores Corp...
Like every other chief of state in Southeast Asia. South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem was disturbed by the disproportionate economic influence wielded by his country's closely knit 1,000,000 "overseas Chinese."* In South Viet Nam 75% of the country's rice and corn trade is Chinese-controlled, and Chinese entrepreneurs dominate much of the nation's export-import trade, banking and shopkeeping. President Diem felt that Chinese who lived and worked in South Viet Nam should become Vietnamese citizens. The Chinese, respectable, law-abiding, but ever prideful of their heritage, disagreed...
Echoing Krag's fears. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak flatly warned that the British proposal would not be permitted to delay "even for a single day" establishment of the six-nation* Common Market, which will constitute a tightly knit "little Europe'' within the larger Free Trade Area. The difference between the two is that Britain, for example, agrees to reduce its tariff barriers with the Six at the same rate as the Six reduce them with one another, but Britain would retain control over its own tariffs in trade with other nations. If all goes...
...they indicate dissatisfaction with the existing structure of residential dormitories supplemented by upperclass eating clubs," he continued. "This structure has served Princeton well during many decades and it can continue to contribute to close-knit campus life...
...cook. Irita Van Doren, Carl's first wife, has edited book reviews for the New York Herald Tribune since 1926. Novelist and Editor Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, Mark's wife, wrote and produced broadcasts for the OWI during World War II. The prodigious output of this closely knit quartet soon earned it the nickname of "the Van Doren trust...