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...with Presley's portrait in place of George Washington's (price: $8). A package of 19 original Presley records is being offered for $9,500. A Columbus, Ga., used-car dealer is restoring the singer's first Cadiliac to take on a national tour. A Delaware outfit called Factors Etc., which has obtained exclusive merchandising rights from Presley's estate, plans to market posters, LOVE ME TENDER T shirts, jewelry, statuettes and Christmas-tree ornaments celebrating Elvis' life...
...July to pass acts that exempt the aged, blind and disabled from some of the increases, and to lop $6,000 off the assessed value of every single-family house. In the upstate New York hamlet of Hardenburgh, residents have dodged the assessor by joining a California mail-order outfit called the "Universal Life Church" and declaring their homes to be churches; they qualify for an exemption on the basis of the U.S. Constitution, which has been interpreted to prohibit the taxation of religious property...
...starting salaries ranged from a low of $2650, for work with a charitable institution, to a high of $53,153. Those who said they worked for a family-operated outfit or for themselves were excluded from the survey. The mean salary would be $175 lower if these graduates were included...
...describe as "the Taj Mahal of the self-service" is also an independent: a place in Las Vegas called Terrible Herbst that features 48 pumps, all run by a staff of two. The stations of the future, some oilmen say, may be somewhat like those run by an outfit in Brussels called Nafta, where a motorist punches his credit card number into a computer, then fills up his tank from an overhead nozzle. The computer then charges the amount of the customer's purchase to his bank account...
...feeling the presence of | executives in their thirties who, having been schooled in '60s virtues, want more openness and disclosure in business, more debate before making decisions, more flexibility in personal and professional styles. Says Stephen McLin, 30, a vice president for the Bank of America (an outfit some incendiary radicals kept trying to burn down about seven years ago): "The impact of this generation will be felt. But the time isn't now. It's coming in about four or five years...