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...York collectors were taking the movement seriously. More recently, the nod would have gone to Arnold Maremont, 63, president of Maremont Corp., maker of mufflers and other auto parts. The muffler man's 300-piece collection, valued at $2,000,000, shines throughout his manor house in Winnetka, at corporate headquarters, and in Maremont's Arizona hideaway...
False-Teeth Collage. The average visitor, ushered through the five galleries annexed to the Winnetka chateau belonging to Retailing Executive Robert Mayer, 57, wishes he had brought along his sunglasses: more than 450 works of op, pop, ob, blob, kinetic and frenetic art jump, creep, twitch, jiggle or blaze from every conceivable wall and cranny. Some of Mayer's purchases are spectacularly fine, including Robert Rauschenberg's Buffalo II, a recent star at the Sao Paulo Bienal. Many others are simply spectacular. For, as Mayer is the first to admit, he has something of a glass...
CHARLES WALLACE PACKER Winnetka...
...could listen to compressed speech lectures through earphones in languagelab situations at anywhere from 475 to 600 w.p.m. In the future, new techniques may raise intelligibility rates to 1000 w.p.m. A speeded speech program has already been instituted on an experimental basis at a school for the blind in Winnetka, Illinois. The Library of Congress has also expressed interest in Cramer's findings for its talking-book programs for the blind...
...young and he's traveling on the reputation of his father," a hostile Winnetka Republican said recently of Adlai E. Stevenson III '52, the Democratic candidate for Treasurer of Illinois...