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Gordon Metcalf of Sears, Roebuck complains that retail-sales figures, which store chains use to plan inventories and sales-promotion policies, are especially slippery. "For instance," he says, "on April 11, retail sales for March were announced as $29.58 billion, a record and a substantial increase over February. On May 5, the March figure was revised to $28.92 billion, a decrease rather than an increase from February...
...each astronaut will have a separate room furnished in Sears, Roebuck Early American style with single bed, dresser, night table, chair and lamp. In identical adjoining rooms, there will be three physicians, one for each astronaut, to provide constant medical attention. The astronaut-reception area also contains a recreation room, a shower and locker room, a lounge lined with bookshelves, a dining room and a kitchen. In a nearby complex of rooms, NASA has also put together one of the most complete biomedical centers in the U.S. There the physicians will subject the astronauts to exhaustive clinical, chemical and microbiological...
Silicon Gas. Everyone is aware that Presidents Grant and Eisenhower passed through the Point, but there were also artists, scientists and businessmen. George Goethals built the Panama Canal, Henry du Pont became an industrialist, and Robert Wood became president of Sears, Roebuck. Edgar Allan Poe, on the other hand, was court-martialed for "gross neglect of duty," and James Whistler failed his chemistry exam. "If silicon were a gas," he said later, "I would be a major general today...
Book reviews of the Sears, Roebuck 1897 catalogue, results of a Japanese pingpong tournament and 16 thundering hours of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung are not normal radio pro gramming. But then, California's non profit Pacifica Foundation, which operates FM radio stations in three...
Franchising's leading practitioners include Hertz car-rental agencies, Walgreen drugstores and Coca-Cola bottling plants, as well as thousands of gasoline 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...