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...factor: Sears's $190 million expansion plans for this year include 35 new stores, nine of them in Eastern states where sales have jumped by 63% since 1962. Another still-blossoming Wood notion is insurance. Sears's Allstate subsidiary is the nation's second largest auto-insurance company, now generates about 20% of Sears's revenue...
...modest air service that shuttled mail between Florida and Cuba. Both events have loomed large in the history of aviation. Lindbergh's flight pointed up aviation's expanding potential, and Trippe's little business eventually grew into Pan American World Airways, the world's largest international airline. Last week in Manhattan, when Trippe, now 68, finally bowed out as Pan Am's boss, it seemed altogether fitting that Lindbergh, long a Pan Am technical consultant and now one of its directors, was on hand for the occasion...
...military buff who describes the conferences that lead up to his corporate takeovers as "war games." Last week, after a long war game, Ling made a tender offer for a controlling 62% of the stock of Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., the nation's fifth largest steelmaker. The offer meant that LTV stood ready to ante up $425 million in one of the largest cash tender offers ever made; at $85 per share, it also meant that Ling, to ensure quick action, was paying a big bonus on shares that opened last week at $50, closed...
...please himself; this experience sentenced him to a chronic condition of shame, which he begs his analyst to cure. The Jewish Blues, which reveals the Portnoy family guilts and secrets even further, appeared the following month in the first issue of New American Review. The fourth and by far largest section (28,000 words) appears in the Review's current issue (New American Library, paperback; $1.25). Titled Civilization and Its Discontents, after Freud's famous essay on the conflict between the individual's instinctual urges and society's demands for restraint, the latest monologue...
Five Harvard professors will resign their posts at the end of this year to take positions at other Universities. According to Dean Ford this is the largest number of resignations since he has been dean...