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Sakowitz, a Houston department store that tries to give pretentiousness a good name, amuses its millionaire patrons with tongue-in-checkbook "ultimate gifts" in its Christmas catalogue. Among this year's offerings: a professionally filmed documentary of your life for $50,000, a private island and lighthouse in the Pacific for $750,000, your wife's weight in loose 10-carat diamonds at $4 million per lb. and an offshore oil rig, capable of drilling in 300 ft. of water, for $28.7 million...
Last week Cronkite sent his RSVP: a telegram demanding that Sakowitz "cease and desist" advertising him as available. It turns out that the store had obtained the names from a speakers bureau that represents Cronkite, but the bureau had never cleared the idea with him. Just one less mouth to feed...
...collection, which in 1974, when he became Vice President, was valued at $33.5 million. Two months ago, the Nelson Rockefeller Collection, Inc., began with the mailing of its catalogue to 475,000 sales prospects, including 350,000 from the mailing list of the Dallas-based Neiman-Marcus department store. Rockefeller, who in 1974 was worth $218 million, will say only that the returns so far have been "encouraging...
MARRIED. John D. Ehrlichman, 53, Richard Nixon's domestic affairs chief and Watergate conspirator; and Christine Peacock McLaurine, 30, interior designer; both for the second time; in Staten Island, N.Y. Ehrlichman, divorced only last month, met his new wife eight months ago in a Manhattan furniture store, where she worked as a salesperson. The couple plan to live in Santa...
...provide money for access roads and other necessary improvements, recently helped block proposed malls that would have competed with the redevelopment plans of Charleston, W. Va., and Duluth, Minn. The Government has also pitched in more directly, providing grants to over 100 cities in hope of helping downtown store owners. Meanwhile, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is encouraging big retailers like Sears, Roebuck to expand operations within the cities. This need not involve economic sacrifice. Such highly successful downtown malls as Houston's glossy enclosed Galleria, Boston's colorful new Faneuil Hall Marketplace and San Francisco...