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...past 15 years. What has surprised the nation's merchants is how strongly consumers continued to step up their spending all through 1965 -and how clear the signs are that they intend to go right on doing so into 1966. "This is the consumption economy," says Fred Lazarus Jr., chairman of the 83-branch Federated Stores chain. "It's a retailer's dream come true...
...Unit sales," says Federated's Lazarus, "no longer tell the whole story." Nowadays consumers quibble less over prices, instead insist on quality. As a result, stores are upgrading even bargain basements, and discounters must stock more expensive merchandise to compete. Few stores had a better Christmas than Tiffany's, where sales rose 30%. Explains Chairman Walter Hoving: "The excise-tax cut made people feel more prosperous. They spent their money on jewels." The A. & P. is grading up its image with the ultimate symbol of affluence: its own "A.& P. Champagne" (cost...
...months before Passover, says the Gospel According to John, Jesus went to Jerusalem "not openly, but as it were in secret."÷ The purpose of this journey was, Schonfield guesses, to set the stage "for the drama to be enacted at the Passover" by enlisting the secret support of Lazarus, Joseph of Arimathea ("one of the great mysteries of the Gospels, a wealthy man and a member of the Sanhedrin") and others...
Though Ralph Lazarus, 51, was assured a job with Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores because he was the fourth generation of what Cincinnatians call "the Lazari," it was talent and hard work that made him rise to the presidency, where he is coequal with Father Fred Jr., 80, Federated's chairman. Ralph now does most of the traveling, makes most of the decisions, and is chiefly responsible for the first $1 billion sales year in Federated's history. Since his father died in 1959, Motorola Chairman Robert W. Galvin, 42, has increased sales 43%, introduced such profitable lines...
...pointless apostrophe to the spirit of a hunting trophy. Although Miss Radner does not have Grenier's ornate gift for charming physical images out of language, she has a fine descriptive touch and makes complex, moving verse out a simple words. With strong, majestic lines Jon as and Lazarus tell the stories of their reawakenings in "Resurrections." In "Primavera" Miss Radner uses an unusual pattern of repeated words to achieve a methodical, stately rhythm...