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...Hague Municipal Museum last week sat two Olmec ambassadors, lifesize, in clay. The largest Olmec ceramics yet found, they had been apparently smuggled out of Mexico and later bought by Los Angeles' Oscar Mayer, a freewheeling dealer in antiquities. Mayer insured the pieces for $75,000; historically they are priceless-two splendid clues in a search back through the dark abyss of time. The sculptures have already caused great excitement in Paris, where Andre Malraux among others identified them as definitely "Olmequisant." Next week they will move on to Berlin's Akademie der Künste...
...movie attendance for the last week of July topped all records, as 82,300,000 people went to the flicks to cool off. A second record from the computers of Hollywood's Pollster Albert Sindlinger: 52,100,000 of the moviegoers were found at drive-ins, largest outdoor attendance ever...
Telling Statistics. The report nonetheless underscored some telling statistics. Mitchell reported that the 20 largest steel companies earned less on their invested capital (12.8%) than the nation's 25 biggest industrial firms (14.7%) in booming 1955-57, which tended to take some of the steam out of the union's talk about huge steel profits in 1959's exceptional first half. On the other side, the report answered industry's contention that a wage raise would necessitate a price rise. It showed that since 1951 the industry's wage-and-benefit costs...
...symbolizes the tremendous changes that have transformed a tradition-laden giant into one of the U.S.'s most experiment-minded retailers. Eighty years old this year, Woolworth's has grown from the tiny Pennsylvania "Great 5? Store" founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth into the world's largest variety-store chain (3,290 stores). The company is now adding new stores on the average of one every three working days, the greatest expansion program of its history...
...shopped at Woolworth's Western Hemisphere stores (which include those in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico and Canada), spent $865 million for such traditional wares as 25 million growing plants, 17 million hair nets, and 75 million greeting cards. Woolworth's is the world's largest private server of food, last year cooked 6,100,000 Ibs. of beef, poured 109 million cups of coffee. Woolworthls own cup is running over so plentifully that the company's 1958 sales and healthy profits of $32.4 million are equal to about half those of the ten other...