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Normally, companies are on the receiving end of lawsuits about discrimination against workers on the basis of sex and race. But last week Sears, Roebuck, the world's largest retailer (annual sales: more than $17 billion), upset that pattern...
...Westchester County presented his startled family with a gift-wrapped sack of long johns from Maine's L.L. Bean, plus a chain saw so that the boys could provide wood for a warming fireplace to keep the Arabs at bay. The greatest yields from the Sears, Roebuck catalogue were in home improvement lines (tools, paints, fixtures), home furnishings (bedspreads were big) and save-work appliances like a microwave oven...
...hero, Jack Tanner (George Grizzard), who doubles as Don Juan, is meant to be a clever and intense young idealist, full of revolutionary ardor. He is in the grip of what Shaw calls a "master passion," and his iconoclastic views are contrasted with those of a fossilized former liberal, Roebuck Ramsden (Richard Woods). Grizzard works hard. But he is visibly too old for the part and lacks the psychic energy needed to fuel the evangelist in Shaw's most fervent heroes...
...Trianon Ballroom, where a giant golden statue of its famous symbol, a bulldog, was displayed on the stage like an Inca god. At each convention Mack gives away 4,000 stuffed bulldogs, each year a little different; they are considered collectors' items. As a host at the Sears, Roebuck disco room celebration said, "It doesn't matter how much it costs. We are here to give our customers a good time. So that when I go out on the road, they know who I am and they say, 'Hey, you had a great party...
...would have competed with the redevelopment plans of Charleston, W. Va., and Duluth, Minn. The Government has also pitched in more directly, providing grants to over 100 cities in hope of helping downtown store owners. Meanwhile, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is encouraging big retailers like Sears, Roebuck to expand operations within the cities. This need not involve economic sacrifice. Such highly successful downtown malls as Houston's glossy enclosed Galleria, Boston's colorful new Faneuil Hall Marketplace and San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square restoration show an appreciation of both architectural and bottom lines...