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...SEARS ROEBUCK CATALOGUE; introductions by S. J. Perelman and Richard Rovere. 786 pages. Chelsea House...
Even with Container Corp. in its fold (and combined revenues of $2.36 billion for last year), Montgomery Ward would still rank third in its field, well behind Sears, Roebuck and a bit below J.C. Penney. In his seven-year struggle to revitalize Wards, Tom Brooker has unabashedly borrowed many tactics from Sears, where he rose to a vice presidency for manufacturing before leaving in 1958 to head appliance-making Whirlpool Corp. He closed marginal outlets, invested much of Wards' pile of idle cash in big new suburban stores, revamped sagging catalog sales, upgraded merchandise lines, established long-term contracts...
...letters supporting his stand. San Francisco as well as neighboring Marin County passed a registration ordinance. In Chicago, a voluntary turn-in campaign has prompted the surrender of 75 guns a day. Florida's Jordan Marsh and Burdine's chains quit selling toy guns, while Sears, Roebuck, the world's largest retailer, stopped advertising weapons as well as children's "toys of violence." A surprising exception to the mood of reevaluation; Presidential Candidate Eugene McCarthy, who insists that controls are a state rather than a federal matter because of widely varying conditions, and who warned against...
...rebuke to violence, 1,000 New York schoolchildren turned a mound of toy guns and comics?including Superman and Combat?over to trash collectors. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward stopped mail-order gun sales after King's assassination; Macy's, Alexander's and Abraham & Straus in New York had quit selling guns even before that. Last week Ohio's J-Mart discount stores gave their entire $20,000 inventory of guns to the Columbus police...
...other-than-industrial categories, the leaders were unchanged. Bank of America is still the nation's biggest bank; Prudential, by a whisker ($511,000 higher assets) over Metropolitan Life, is still the biggest insurance company. Sears, Roebuck is far and away the biggest merchandiser, Penn Central the biggest transportation company, and A.T. & T. by much more than whiskers the biggest utility. (A.T. & T., were its revenues considered as sales, would stand third if it were included among the industrials...