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...DROPPED OUT of Cornell and enlisted in the Air Force, where they trained him to be a radar repairman. The military being what it is, a man who had had to leave school because of language difficulty found himself teaching others how to repair radar for three years in Biloxi, Miss., followed by a year putting his training into practice in Greenland...
...Mary's is an assertive symbol of that fraternal association Churchill bespoke, a reminder of the common heritage of both nations. On simpler esthetic grounds, it stands amidst Missouri's flat plains as a monument of excellence that the uninstructed can admire, a standard that traditionalists can repair to, and a challenge that the creative can strive to surpass...
...desperate moments began even before the controversial heart started pumping life back into Karp, 47, a printing estimator from Skokie, 111. Cooley warned Karp that if his badly damaged heart proved to be beyond repair, it might become necessary to use the experimental plastic device. Because the artificial heart is believed to cause serious damage to the blood if left in the body for too long, Cooley, along with Karp's family, issued a nationwide appeal for a human heart to replace it as quickly as possible. It was a starkly explicit appeal,calling for a person "with irreversible...
...garish profusion of hamburger stands, fruit-juice parlors, pancake emporia and muffler-repair shops stretches for ten miles along Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. It could be called Franchise Row. Though hardly a landscape to captivate the eye, the phenomenon is increasingly common to cities and suburbs. Franchising-an arrangement by which local entrepreneurs lease their firm name, product and operating methods from large chains-has become one of the fastest-growing sectors of U.S. business. Through franchising, thousands of independent small businessmen have acquired improved techniques, new economic power and a greatly enhanced chance...
...stations and all new-auto dealers. In recent years, the ranks have been joined by both Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, which together have franchised 1,300 small-town catalogue-order outlets. Franchising has spread to businesses as disparate as art galleries, nursing homes, dating bars, travel agencies, shoe-repair shops, lawnmower-sharpening services and dental-technician schools. There is even a franchised diet service (Weight Watchers, Inc.) and a franchised system for correcting nocturnal bed-wetting (Enurtone Co.). Recently, the fastest growth has been concentrated in the quick-service food field. It includes such enterprises as the 93-outlet...