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Expansion has been paid for entirely from profits. Aldo Gucci, one of the directors, says: "We do not believe in flirting with banks." But the company is beginning to outgrow its own financing. Last week Aldo Gucci revealed that it plans soon to sell some shares of its U.S. operation to the public...
...published by Atheneum, Westin insists that the right to privacy must nolonger be taken for granted. The mounting psychological and electronic assault on private lives poses a threat that cannot be exaggerated, he points out, and "we have only a few years of lead time before the problem will outgrow our capacity to apply controls...
...University of California was a rude rebuff to an excellent administrator. In eight years, he helped build the university into the strongest public university in the country. His departure solves nothing, for no reputable successor is likely to agree to replace him until many Californians, particularly Governor Reagan, outgrow their belief that the state can have an excellent educational system and not collect taxes...
Koret set up Koratron as a licensing subsidiary of his Koret of California (annual sales: $25 million), but the child threatens to outgrow the parent. Koratron is run by Herman A. Greenberg, 57, a Harvard Law graduate and onetime New York Daily Mirror reporter who was hired because of the policing experience he gained as the wartime Office of Price Administration's enforcement director. The com pany collects 2% on all Koratron-treated material, then another 1% on every garment. It requires that the Koratron trademark be prominently shown on garments, backs up the tag with a snappy advertising...
Most girls outgrow their dolls, but a sculptress named Marisol is an exception. She has made her dolls grow up with her. One 7-ft. 4-in. figure, Baby Boy, even clutches a small doll, with Marisol's features, in his gigantic fist. Her lifesized, deadpan puppets in brightly painted wood mock and mime the postures of people whom she meets (see opposite page...