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...corner of 65th and Broadway, I noticed a building on my left. Spacious, modern and airy, looked like the home for Exxon or ITT. But instead a large sign in front announced, "Mormon Visitor Center. Guests Welcome...

Author: By Cliff Sloan, | Title: Mannequins and Mormons | 5/9/1978 | See Source »

...century, and wiser. He has witnessed the failure of his early radicalism and watched favorite writers fall into neglect and obscurity. Yet, almost alone of his generation, he remains unafflicted by bitterness. Every chapter of -And I Worked at the Writer's Trade reveals a humane and spacious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cowley's Reclamation Project | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...ceremonies began with an uncommonly festive air. In the spacious Hall of the Frescoes in Rome's Palazzo Chigi, Giulio Andreotti, newly installed as Premier of his fourth government, was swearing in 46 new Cabinet Under Secretaries. After that, he would go to the adjoining Chamber of Deputies to present his new government and initiate the vote of confidence that for the first time in three decades would bring Italy's Communist Party into the parliamentary majority. Just as the oaths were being completed, an official raced up with a message. Andreotti's face froze. The news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Terrorists Declare War | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Montgomery Ward has remodeled its spacious outlet in Skokie, Ill., installing new surveillance posts that blend into the décor. Observation towers are disguised as structural supports; protruding mirrors along a wall conceal guards who scan the throngs of shoppers crowding the aisles. Retailers around the country are taking similar security measures. Reason: business is booming in the weeks before Christmas, but so is shoplifting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Tis the Season To Be Wary | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

Finkelstein started his campaign in Macy's basement, one of the first bargain basements in U.S. retailing. He abolished it and created the Cellar, actually a tiled "street" lined with spacious shops for gourmet food, cutlery, stationery and kitchenware and an art gallery. At one end is a reasonably accurate replica of P.J. Clarke's, the Irish pub in midtown Manhattan that stands just as it was built in the 1890s. Demonstrations run continually: a potter handcrafts vases in the pottery shop. On upper floors came other changes: a massive children's store on six, divided into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Macy's Greets Christmas | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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