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...other firms. Last week the SEC was still meeting with leading corporate lawyers to discuss possible guidelines pertaining to enforcement rules. Many businessmen and some Government officials challenge the whole concept of exporting morality to parts of the world like the Middle East, where baksheesh, or greasing the palm, is an accepted fact of business life. Says the president of one Houston oil company: "Things might have gone on that are part of the art of doing business overseas...
Franchises cost up to $35,000. The companies provide the equipment and decor, which is often early Gilligan's Island: rattan and white wicker furniture, palm trees, sometimes thatched roofs on the tanning "huts." Operators charge customers $35 and up for a series of 20 visits, and $125 or more for a year's unlimited tanning. A few offer $500 life memberships. Franchisers talk enthusiastically about the clinics' profit potential, which they say is especially good because the overhead is low and there are no product costs. Some operators have done well, but others have...
Standing in a row, they look prim, proper and more than a little abashed, like three Palm Beach socialites turning up in the same Pucci. In their January issues, the Smithsonian, Scientific American and National Geographic all appeared with cover photos showing a volcano erupting on Jupiter's moon lo. Though having look-alike covers is an editor's nightmare that all too frequently comes true, the science magazines' trifecta was an interplanetary long shot. The picture is a computer composite of images radioed to earth by Voyager 1 last March. The three monthlies (total circ...
Edward and Elizabeth Ames Palm Desert, Calif...
Katharine Wulfeck Palm Beach Shores...