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...notably, bauxite, iron, diamonds), Strongman Touré's blend of xenophobia and socialism saddled the country with severe food shortages, inflation and gaping trade deficits. The trouble, as one Western visitor puts it, is that Guinea's government has long viewed foreign aid as "one big Sears, Roebuck store, with unlimited credit...
...mostly white-collar workers. But some big companies pioneered in the field, and others are interested. Procter & Gamble, whose plan was started in 1887 and is now the nation's oldest, invests all its profit-sharing funds in P.&G. stock, last year paid out $17 million. Sears, Roebuck invests from 5% to 10% of profits in its plan, which is now worth $1.7 billion; Sears employees who retired last year drew an average of $64,496 each. Such large firms as Eastman Kodak, the S. C. Johnson Co. (Johnson's Wax), Merrill Lynch and the Bank...
...National Retail Merchants Association felt that this year's Christmas sales will exceed 1962's. But, as stores busily worked at launching their early season last week, it was hard to find a merchant who voiced anything but optimism. "Indications so far," said an executive of Sears, Roebuck, "point to a record Christmas season. Only a war could stop...
...Sears, Roebuck stores in Caracas look a little like fortresses these days, with steel watchtowers manned round-the-clock by battle-ready Venezuelan soldiers. Since last February, Castroite terrorists have bombed each of Sears's eleven stores, and burned down a $2,000,000 warehouse. So how's business? Great. Sears's sales are now running 30% better than last year in some stores. The company is rebuilding the warehouse, adding a twelfth store, and going partners on two new factories to produce furniture and stoves...
...assured David Mackenzie Ogilvy, the road to quick success on Madison Avenue was paved with good inventions. As chief of Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, which he founded 15 years ago, he has used polished presentations to woo and win blue-chip clients such as Shell Oil, General Foods, and Sears, Roebuck, and he has turned out sophisticated campaigns spotlighting the man in the Hathaway shirt and the Rolls-Royce, where "At Sixty Miles an Hour the Loudest Noise Comes from the Electric Clock." He was always ready to give an interviewer a phrase that would catch headlines, and to send progress...