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...That is quite an understatement. By astutely minding their own business, the entrepreneurial Pritzkers have put together a portfolio of business interests with assets approaching $500 million. The Pritzkers-Jay, Brothers Robert and Donald, plus Father Abram and Uncle Jack-run one of the nation's largest and least-known family enterprises...
...least-known bodies of primitive art is that produced in the villages and aboriginal settlements of India. It has remained unknown primarily because educated Indians long placed a low value on it. Recently, a resurgence of pride in the nation's heritage has led to a rediscovery of Indian folk art. How rich a tradition it has is shown in an exhibit of 470 masks, statues, weavings, paintings and puppets now touring the U.S. (see color page). Organized by the U.S.'s Stella Kramrisch for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the show is currently at San Francisco...
...moved away in 1958. But last week workmen were preparing the old grounds for a new and different pitch. And by next spring, bargain hunters instead of ball fans should be swarming into a $9,000,000 shopping complex belonging to one of the nation's largest yet least-known retailers-Manhattan-based Interstate Department Stores...
...just northeast of Washington sprawls the capital's third largest, most tightly guarded building. Though smaller only than the Pentagon and the State Department, the modernistic nine-story headquarters of the U.S.'s biggest intelligence organ, the National Security Agency, is also official Washington's least-known edifice...
...newest and least-known rackets in the U.S. today is the traffic in stolen, counterfeit, outdated and smuggled, substandard drugs. An honest pharmacist may unwittingly buy them from an apparently legitimate wholesaler. A crooked druggist may seek them out. So far, no regulatory agency has been able to determine how many of the billion or more prescriptions handled annually by U.S. pharmacists are filled with substandard items. But the racket is growing, and with it, the potential danger to unsuspecting patients...