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...Indonesia. The man who will direct the U.S.'s sales, General Services Administration Executive John Croston, has tried to calm fears of U.S. dumping by saying that the sales would be spaced out over five years, with just enough marketed at any one time to fill the gap between free world supply and demand. But the tantalizing question is what price the U.S. would sell at-and those speculators who guess correctly stand to make tidy sums...
...short, he has been to enough familiar and remote places to know better than to be beguiled by tourist brochures. But in the course of a 13-day tour through Communist Albania, on which he reports this week, Behr found the gap between fact and pictured fancy even wider than he expected. "Visiting Albania." he said, "is like putting the clock back and waking up in the Balkans of the 16th century, with telephone wires, modern weapons, and a little motor transport added...
...summer marks its 40th anniversary, State Farm is all but ignoring the fact, instead has its eye firmly fixed on harvests to come. The race to write automobile insurance is more and more a battle between two giants, State Farm and Sears, Roebuck's Allstate. Allstate narrowed the gap in the late 1950s, but State Farm has pulled ahead again recently, last year collected $43 million more in premiums than Allstate. For 1970, State Farm has set a goal of 11 million policyholders. and to achieve it intends to increase its agent force from...
...Filled Gap. Brooks came to the garment trade from Syracuse University, wangled a job with a second-rate house that specialized, says Brooks, in "hopped-up, jazzy sportswear-the kind of place where they put rhinestones on Irish linen and the sales staff called it raindrops." For a year he designed similar monstrosities and studied the ups and downs of the business...
...Claire McCardell, whose casual, comfortable "American Look" (no buttons that don't button, no bows that don't tie) made the U.S. the world's sportswear capital. When Claire McCardell died in 1958, Klein chose Brooks as the man with the best chance of filling the gap she left. Townley's sales have doubled since Brooks took over, now run to a handsome 40,000 or more dresses a year, retailing...