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Last week Boesky, who has three sons and a daughter, spent much of his time folding up ambitious personal and social commitments he has made. He scrapped a grand plan to remodel the family's ten-bedroom house, situated on 200 acres of land in New York's Westchester County, to look like Jefferson's Monticello. Far more painful, no doubt, was his decision to withdraw from the many prominent positions that had given him a measure of social status, including his posts as a trustee of the American Ballet Theater and finance director for the National Jewish Coalition...
When another group of students decided to remodel the Yard with an ivory tower and five shabby shanties, Jewett held negotiations with the students. He didn't like the shanties, but he never threatened to tear them down...
...years ago, there were no more than a dozen major establishments. Today there are perhaps 60, and new ones open seemingly every day. Next weekend Winthrop Hill in Watertown, Conn., registers its first clients. And doyennes are sprucing up. La Costa, near San Diego, is spending $70 million to remodel and add 240 rooms...
...cover up the scheme. The prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Charles Wickersham, said that what clinched the verdict was a check for $3,000 made out to Hedgecock by one of three co-defendants, as well as proof that a second co-defendant had given him $130,000 to remodel his home...
...also sweeping the aisles of Sears' 806 retail stores in all 50 states, where some 39 million American families shop. Under Chairman and Chief Executive Edward R. Telling, Sears* boss since 1978, the company has launched a $1.7 billion capital-improvement program to build 62 new stores, remodel 600 others and update the company's whole approach to selling. By October, Sears will have 107 "stores of the future," which will depart sharply from its traditional selling places. They have a friendlier, more welcoming look than the Sears stores of old, with more aisles, lower ceilings and merchandise...