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...fair percentage of full-service stations. To help fill the need created by the demise of many others, a new type of business is springing up: auto service centers that sell no gas but concentrate instead on providing auto repairs and parts. For example, Sears, Roebuck and J.C. Penney both operate a string of such centers nationwide. Yet hard realities cannot be denied. Like the Mom and Pop grocery store, the gas dealer who will check the oil, tune a motor or tow a car will almost certainly be ever rarer in the years ahead...
...Armed Forces or service in minimum-wage industries in the Northeast. Everyone has part of his family living there. And the tie with the United States has brought branches of every imaginable institution into the island: there are subsidiaries of the Rotary Club, of the pentecostal churches, of J.C. Penney's. The island has gotten just enough of the benefits of the American way of life to feel jealous of it and superior to the rest of Latin America. With the comforts of a consumer society, Puerto Rico has also gotten the problems: industrial society, highway proliferation, drug addiction...
...specialized in manpower demographics-the structure and composition of the labor force-with particular emphasis on women and the aged. Appointed first woman director of the New York Stock Exchange in 1972, Kreps also broke the sex barrier in the board rooms of Western Electric, Eastman Kodak and J.C. Penney...
...Secretary . . . If chosen, expected to press for such programs as job training for unemployed youth and equal pay and child-care centers for working women . . . Specialist in labor-force demographics and working women . . . Vice president, National Council on the Aging . . . First woman director of New York Stock Exchange, J.C. Penney Co. . . . Also on three other corporate boards...
...enough to have had a camera in hand when Olga Korbut tried on a wedding gown in a St. Louis suburb. The darling of the 1972 Olympics, who is on an eleven-city U.S. tour with the U.S.S.R. National Gymnastics Team, pulled out three crisp $100 bills in J.C. Penney's to buy the gown and matching veil (total: $225). Olga, 21, plans to be married back home next year. Who is the lucky guy? "Just an ordinary boy," shrugs Korbut. No honeymoon is planned. Says the bride, with no hint of a blush: "If you get all your...