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Paint & Profits. To keep up with change, the chains are rapidly adopting self-service (Woolworth now has it in 80% of its stores) and moving toward larger stores. Grant's new centers sprawl over 31 acres of floor space. Woolworth is placing most of its new stores in downtown areas instead of suburbs because President Robert C. Kirkwood senses "a trend of rejuvenation in the center city." In declining fringe neighborhoods, Kresge has converted its old and unprofitable stores into small-inventory cut-rate stores that sell only limited lines-the fastest selling shades of paint, the most...
...poor?a worthy but not exhilarating objective. Only gradually did it become clear that the sickness of the cities was a kind of heart disease; they have been dying at the center, where the great stores and great buildings and great enterprises are supposed to be. The suburban sprawl, in leeching the center city's lifeblood, was imperiling the whole urban organism. Suddenly everybody?bankers, businessmen, politicians, newspapers and civic associations of all shapes and sizes?found themselves united in a new concern for the city in a mustering of community forces unparalleled in recent times...
...some youngsters, usually those of an introspective and sensitive nature, become addicted to it. They fall into a vicious cycle in which long hours of viewing leave them too tired to do anything more strenuous than sprawl out to do more viewing. The ultimate cure is as simple as it is radical: send the kids out to play, and after dark give them a book to read...
...Lady Bird's forehead and loudly announce, "I love you." On a warm Washington evening, the two may saunter out of the White House, head for the grassy darkness beneath a giant tree. There Lady Bird may lie down with her arms stretched over her head. Lyndon may sprawl beside her, propped up on his elbow so that he can look into her face, and they talk quietly...
...Start. One reason for the boom is the stimulus of the U.S. economy's upswing, which has greatly increased bank earnings. In addition, the sprawl of the suburbs and the westward population drift have created a need for expanded lending and checking-account services that cannot be met by established banks, which state laws often bar from branching. Partly to skip around those archaic laws, U.S. Controller of the Currency James J. Saxon has been eagerly chartering new national banks. He hopes that they will introduce fresh methods, hone competition to the consumer's benefit, and revitalize...