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...sealed quarters-including bedrooms, a kitchen stocked with frozen food, a small gym, and medical quarters with even a small operating room. But the astronauts will have no doubt that they are home: for crew-quarters decor, NASA has chosen Early American-style furniture by Sears, Roebuck...
...youngsters, who have watched manned space ships blast off on TV and may never even have ridden in a train, the tracks are losing thier magic. Lionel, which has absorbed A.C. Gilbert's American Flyer this year stopped stopped making trains and is selling off its inventory. Sears Roebuck's current Christmas catalogue devotes tow pages to model trains-but it takes nine pages to describe slot-car racing sets, which provide an element of competition that the trains never had, and have replaced them as the Christmas present that boys want most...
...warmer than the plateau. The valley itself is a treacherous campsite, prone to flash floods and violent sand storms; at one camp last month, a sandstorm shredded more than 600 tents to ribbons, leaving 3,000 refugees without shelter. Many of the tents, moreover, are Sears Roebuck's "Ted Williams" models, donated by the U.S. but designed for weekend summer camping...
...This confirmed my suspicions about three sacred cows: the law, lawyers, and Sears, Roebuck...
...generally following in the wayward footsteps of Miriani. In July, Gordon broke the news that the mayor's wife Mary had filed suit for separate maintenance. A few weeks ago, Gordon opened wounds again by reporting that Cavanagh had closed his wife's charge account at Sears, Roebuck-much to her embarrassment when she tried to purchase school shoes for four of her eight children...