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...eleven-year-old son, Peter Jr., was still at school. The killer picked him up there and drove him eight miles to the woods. He shot the boy through the face with a .22 rifle, newly purchased at Sears, Roebuck and Co. He got back into the car-which he had borrowed that morning from his remaining brother, Raymond-and drove it to a Cambridge factory where...
Chicago's Allstate Insurance Co., a Sears, Roebuck subsidiary and third largest of the independents, also chopped its rates. Premiums on cars driven by high-school youths in 44 states will be shaved 15%, provided each youngster completes an auto safety course of 30 classroom hours and six hours behind the wheel (while more than 6,000 of the nation's 25,000 high schools offer such courses, only 350,000 of the 2,000,000 students who come of driving age each year take them...
...likely to find a combo blasting away almost anywhere -at the shower tents just behind Old Baldy, at the medical-clearing stations where the litters are coming in fast, at the rest-area hoedowns helping G.I.s cut an Oriental rug with Korean belles decked out in latest Sears, Roebuck couture. And wherever soldiers find a combo, they keep it busy...
...tricks of the old-pro trade. Moans Jackie: "When somebody drops a long putt against me, I'm not supposed to compliment her at all. Just turn and walk off to the next tee." Jackie, who gave up a $185-a-month job with Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Honolulu for the faster money on the fairways, has been a quick study. In her first five tournaments she finished 11th...
High & Dry. A wallpaper paste for do-it-yourself paperhangers that dries slowly enough to allow plenty of time to slide the paper around is on sale in Sears, Roebuck stores. It comes in powder form for mixing with water. Price of a 1-lb. package, enough to paper a 10-ft. by 12-ft. room...