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Dear Not So Interested: The press run of our first issue was 375,000, and we sold 71% of that. We expect to prosper because Bob Guccione can make a go of anything. Though basically an artist (he draws some of our cartoons). Bob once made a splash in British dry cleaning, introducing a 24-hour delivery service. And he's proved what he can do with magazines. He now has two others besides Penthouse in Britain, and is opening a Penthouse Club in London this month...
Cocoa Beach pays unending tribute to the space age that made it prosper. Motels bear names like Sea Missile, Satellite and Polaris. There is a Celestial Trailer Court and an Astro-Dine Outer Space Eat-In. George's Steak House has rest rooms marked "Astronauts" and "Astronets." The menu suggests: "Lift off with a three-stage martini. Order a steak that soars to an apogee of taste and splash down with coffee...
...from a height of 70 miles last December, Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman described it as "vast, lonely and forbidding?a great expanse of nothing." But looks can be deceiving. As desolate as the moon appears, scientists have little doubt that man will soon work, play, and perhaps even prosper on his bleak satellite...
...open to argument. Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans has warned that continued rapid growth of Asian textile imports in the 1970s could wipe out the jobs of 600,000 U.S. textile workers, including many undereducated laborers in Southern towns. On the other hand, efficient U.S. textile companies have managed to prosper in spite of import competition. Burlington Industries, Cannon Mills and J. P. Stevens & Co. have steadily increased sales and profits...
Both the new stores have good selections and should prosper. Passim is a novel, relaxing place to browse, and Reading International is a more comprehensive book store which also offers a newsstand collection of periodicals. AILEEN JACOBSON