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Died. Bernard Hamilton Stauffer, 63, founder of Stauffer Laboratories, and developer (in 1938) of the first big-time reducing machines, who parleyed his jiggling "Magic Couches" into a nationwide chain of 250 franchised salons before the Federal Trade Commission charged in 1960 that his machines "were of no value in reducing weight," after which business suffered a sharp decline; of a heart attack; in San Gabriel, Calif...
...follow the advice which Sir Hamilton Gibb offers in the lead article: that Western advisers and observers should interpret the problems of the Middle East in terms of the distinctive culture and history of the area. The only two who even attempt to do so are Thomas R. Stauffer and Nadav Safran...
...Stauffer's article, accompanied by eight pages of intriguing photographs, describes the life of the Quashqai nomads of Iran and the government's intermittent efforts at forcing them to settle. He fails, however, to explain the reason for the present Shah's opposition to the nomads and sounds much too much like a travelogue. Safran, on the other hand, in the most interesting article in the issue, discusses the Histradrut, an Israeli combination trade union and industrial empire. He describes its formation, in the days before the organization of the state of Israel, as an organization to include "all workers...
Until the revenuers struck, Slenderella's fast-talking President Lawrence Mack, 40, had shown a nice talent for handling complaints. A former general manager for big Stauffer Reducing Inc., he fought off a patent infringement suit by Stauffer after he set up Slenderella with a reducing table similar to Stauffer's. He also shook off a campaign by the Better Business Bureau against his "misleading advertising," which promised that size 20s would be squeezed down to size 14s. Mack promoted Slenderella with TV and radio spots, built up sales to more than $20 million in seven years, held...
...Stauffer Chemical...