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...into closer competition with Neiman-Marcus, which is based in Dallas but owned by California's Broadway-Hale group. The two Texas retailers have been slugging it out in Houston since 1970, when Neiman-Marcus opened a big store right across from a Sakowitz outlet in suburban Post Oak. The stores sell generally the same kind of goods, the main difference being that some prices are higher at Neiman-Marcus, inspiring customers to dub it "Needless Markup." Most Houstonians remain loyal to the home-town retailers. At Post Oak, the one point where the two compete, Sakowitz...
...town of Rambouillet, 28 miles southwest of Paris, for this 19th meeting with Le Due Tho. The North Vietnamese began the quiet Sunday-morning session with a ritual demand for a political settlement, and then asked for a two-hour break. Kissinger spent the time walking through the surrounding oak and beech forests, pondering what would come next. The setting had the kind of historical cachet that delights Kissinger. It was at Rambouillet, with its 14th century chateau, once a retreat of Mary Queen of Scots, Catherine de Medicis and Henry IV, where Ernest Hemingway set up his headquarters with...
...KROC, 70, Chicago, chairman and chief executive officer of McDonald's Corp., Oak Brook, Ill. Gifts: Nixon...
...difference between the two political parties on economic matters. The Democrats are attacked for advocating "giveaway programs" and for planning cuts in defense spending that might cost jobs. The Republicans are assailed for their relation to big business. Though he plans to vote for Nixon, Richard Close of Royal Oak, Mich., contends that the President's wage-and-price-control scheme to halt inflation has not worked for the little man. "Nixon controls wages, but not prices. He helps big business, but he's screwing everyone else." Mrs. Virginia Carson, a Norwalk, Conn., registered nurse, says that despite...
...road is dusty, winding and tortuous, but every Wednesday and Sunday several hundred people turn off the smooth concrete of Route 142 near Anaheim, Calif., and bump their way upward to the oak-studded hills of Carbon Canyon. They assemble themselves on folding chairs formed in a semicircle in a glade near the top of the Hill of Hope, and there await the Miracle of St. Joseph. They are never disappointed. At 10:30 a.m., a stocky woman with soft gray hair and intense brown eyes walks quietly in front of a modest pedestal holding a small statue...