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...Empire. They come to something like $4,000,000 a year. The Jax empire has spread eastward, now includes seven stores across the country, (the Manhattan branch is lodged in an opulent 57th Street town house), with an eighth scheduled to open in Southampton this May and a Paris outlet planned for next year. Hanson owns a house in Beverly Hills and a cream-colored Rolls-Royce. But best of all he likes his office. For there, in an upstairs crow's nest overlooking a strategically trained 15-ft. mirror below, Jack Hanson is master of all he surveys...
...sleuth cannot get into the target room, he will usually work from an adjacent room or corridor, where he may be able to slip a bug into an electrical outlet or heating duct, which are often back-to-back. Otherwise, he may drill a small hole through the wall and poke a thin plastic tube into it, just short of the far surface, so as to siphon sound waves into a microphone next door...
...from more than the military prospective. It is improbable that military duty is the most fruitful way for all young men to fulfill their obligation. The Peace Corps and the proposed National Service Corps are two alternatives which would appeal to many young men and provide a more useful outlet for their talents. Since the armed forces now require only a third of the men in the manpower pool every year, the President should direct his affection not only to improving the Selective Service lottery but also to making a more rational allocation of manpower...
...variants) had been around since 1886, but not until 1947 did Dr. Joseph Weinberg of the Long Beach (Calif.) VA Hospital try the promising combination of vagotomy and pyloroplasty. A vagotomy by itself tends to make the stomach flaccid so that it does not empty fast enough; opening its outlet comes close to restoring nature's timing. This approach appeals to such surgeons as Dr. Moore because it is the least mutilating of the available approaches, and a more drastic operation can still be done later if necessary...
...Last year he persuaded Textile Tycoon Je-ronimo Arango Sr. to join him in buying a 55% stake in the big old Orizaba textile company-fully appreciating that Arango's three sons run Mexico's largest discount retailing chain (TIME, Feb. 8) and would provide a fine outlet for Orizaba's garments...