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Sales Blitz. The foundation of Turner's empire remains Koscot, and the key to its growth is the "multilevel distributorship." Koscot sells "distributorships" for up to $5,000. Distributors get a 65% discount on the list price of the products and generally distribute them through supervisors, or subdistributors, who get a 55% discount. Women called "beauty advisers" are hired to hawk the products door to door. Anybody who buys such a distributorship can also collect $1,950 for each friend or relative he recruits to buy another $5,000 distributorship-or $500 for each person he brings...
...directors of the U.S. theater. He manages to meld Bruce's sleazy world of one-night stands, his marital hopes and horrors, his helpless, raging entanglement in the courts, and even his vaulting fantasies into a fluid continuum up, down and around the multilevel stage. Lenny was a microphone man; mikes perpetually cut in and out, held and handled as integral parts of the action. Giant effigies from Lenny's pain-filled mind loom and dangle suddenly into the set: Dracula, Jackie Kennedy, Little Orphan Annie, Richard Nixon. Even Hitler (in five-foot boots) and Eichmann...
...MULTILEVEL PLATFORMS. Architect Michael Black was called in by Harold Slavkin, a Los Angeles molecular biologist, to plan a vacation house. He disposed of all furniture, building a complex of multilevel platforms covered with carpeting. Now guests sit, lie or sprawl, and flop from one tier to another as conversations catch their interest. "In a 10-ft. by 12-ft. area," says Slavkin's wife Kay, "we've had as many as twelve people in practically as many postures." Black also revamped the Slavkins' staid, traditional Los Angeles house. "The problem," he says, "was a cold, formal...
...revenue from these parking fees is needed to construct five new multilevel parking garages," James T. Sullivan, Harvard University parking manager, said yesterday...
Vincent Ponte is a little-known planner who stands at the opposite end of the spectrum from Doxiadis. Instead of designing huge urban regions, Ponte concentrates on small, heavily used plots in downtown areas. His specialty is multilevel traffic systems; his showpiece is Montreal. His emphasis: practicality. "Downtown pays for at least 20% of a city's real estate taxes," he says. "Shouldn't we take care of a goose that lays such a golden...