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...building Mackle brothers, also has a flourishing outpost in Hong Kong. Last year it sold more than $1,000,000 worth of land, mostly to Chinese investors. Operating on a still larger scale is Miami's General Development Corp., whose chairman is Charles Kellstadt, ex-chief of Sears, Roebuck, and among whose major stockholders is Publisher Gardner Cowles. It reports $4,000,000-a-year sales of Florida realty to investment-minded Europeans and Latin Americans. The firm sometimes charters flights for foreign prospects, who get a $125 discount if they...
...m.p.h., v. 13 m.p.h. for standard auto glass. G.M. now installs on request a device that automatically limits speed to a desired level. The auto companies are also working on passenger harnesses, padded dashboards and a steering wheel that collapses upon the impact of collision. Sears, Roebuck is even selling his-and-her safety helmets...
...serves on several boards, carefully cultivates the fund's ties with the business community. Though he feels that rising competition is one of the main problems he will face as chairman, he also sees in it a bright side for M.I.T. The entry into mutual funds by Sears Roebuck and other companies, he says, means that mutual funds will inevitably become better known. Isaacs is sure that M.I.T. will benefit...
...songs are by Soviet Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, who blithely dissolves ideological conflicts in a burst of tuneful Slavic borsch. Occasionally the Magicolor screen becomes a hotbed of artistic freethinking, dissolving into sets that look very MGMsky, if not downright cubistic. The costumes are a Sears, Roebuck fashion show...
...nearly half of all installment debt, banks have pulled ahead of the auto-finance companies by offering lower interest rates. Still the competition grows. Following the lead of General Motors, both Ford and Chrysler have set up their own credit subsidiaries, and so have General Electric and Sears, Roebuck...