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During his free time as an 18-year-old clerk in a Sears, Roebuck store in Gardner, Mass., Peter Roberts invented a quick-release ratchet wrench that enabled a mechanic to change sockets with one hand. At his boss's suggestion, Roberts offered his invention to Sears. Executives told him that his wrench probably would not sell well and that patents were pending for similar tools. But Sears eventually bought the rights to Roberts' wrench...
...would seem, consists in memory and a will to escape the sorrows of childhood: "The only way to deal with the real world was to challenge it with one of your own making." As a boy, Crews created a country drawn from the photo graphs of models in Sears, Roebuck catalogues, and the characters he conjured up were no doubt precursors of the people who dwell in his novels. But this memoir depicts them as they truly were and situ ates them in that inexhaustible literary arena, the bitter, impoverished South...
...burglar's tools. The next day a longtime friend of Smith's, Harold Jones Jr., a librarian for a Philadelphia high school, was arrested leaving Smith's house with several pounds of marijuana. Subsequently, another county charged Smith with stealing $53,000 from a Sears, Roebuck store last year...
...million or more cars and trucks. Housing starts have run at an annual rate of 2 million or more in April, May and June. Some retail sales have softened in the last couple of months, but the large chains are reporting strong gains so far this year: Sears, Roebuck is up 13%, Montgomery Ward 14% and K-Mart...
...many businesses will have to raise prices or reduce mailings. Says an official of Sears, Roebuck: "This is just one measure of inflation that is going to hurt everyone." Esquire magazine had planned to mail circulation promotions to as many as 5 million potential subscribers; now it may solicit fewer. Says Financial Vice President Louis Isidora: "It costs us as much to mail as to print the stuff We have a fixed number of dollars to work with. If postage goes up, something has to go down." Publishers fear that rises in second-class mailing rates will force some magazines...