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Tasmanian Opossum. In Manhattan, the waterbed display at Bloomingdale's department store for a while was a popular singles meeting place. Sears, Roebuck and Holiday Inns are eying the beds, and Lake Tahoe's Kings Castle Hotel has already installed them in its luxury suites. Playboy Tycoon Hugh Hefner has one-king-size, of course, and covered with Tasmanian opossum. The growing number of manufacturers and distributors, with such appropriate names as Aquarius Products, the Water Works, Innerspace Environments, Joyapeutic Aqua Beds and the Wet Dream, can hardly meet the demand. They have sold more than...
...never really mattered. Harvard took the medley relay in 3:43.9; Henry Watson was first in the 1000-free (10:45.8); and Rich Roebuck edged to a 1:56.8 victory in the 200-free. The score then was 18-7, and the Crimson won another three events before UConn's Tom Welch won the butterfly...
Perverted Power. Boasting an annual budget of $11.5 million, Traverse City Hospital wields considerable influence in the town (pop. 17,700). The manager of the local Sears, Roebuck and Co. store, David C. Zemke, wrote to Sommerness: "We will refrain from further use of this media. Please assure your employees that we value their patronage very highly and are indeed sorry if we offended them." After hospital officials threatened to move the institution's bank accounts, the National Bank and Trust Co. also canceled its advertising. So did Robert Dean, president of Red Mill Lumber Co., pointing out that...
...inevitable tentative mod, their hair, just a touch of long, their manners, frightfully winning, the two looked less like Brel's sailors and soldiers and cast-off lovers, rather more like two Red Sox players in an off-season gig, or, worse yet, the male models in a Sears Roebuck catalogue. Annette Pirrone, in the smaller female role, came across as merely pleasant. As a result, all three were easily eclipsed by Denise Le Brun. A protege of Edith Piaf (the program quotes Piaf as saying, "She's the only one who could replace me without being ridiculous."), Le Brun...
...world's second tallest building, after Manhattan's 1,250-ft. Empire State Building. Early this year Standard Oil (Indiana) unfurled plans to put up a Chicago headquarters that, when finished in 1972, will be 9 ft. taller than the John Hancock. Last week Sears, Roebuck & Co. announced that it will build the tallest skyscraper of them all, bigger even than the 1,350-ft. World Trade Center now going up in Lower Manhattan, which was to top the Empire State. The new Sears headquarters, opening in 1974, will be a 109-story tower rising...