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...prime mover was William M. Batten, a West Virginia storekeeper's son who clerked for Penney at 17 before studying economics. He undertook a two-year, 150-page study that proved so thorough that he was promoted from vice president to president and chief executive in 1958 to implement it. (In 1964, Batten moved up to chairman.) Besides remodeling small stores ("For years we were only in small towns," says Vice President William L. Marshall, "and we're not about to forsake them"), Penney moved into the cities and suburbs, expanded into hard goods, added 47 auto centers...
...goal to rid education of the so-called "eleven-plus" examination that in state-run schools forces children apart at the age of eleven-the top group streaming off to the academically superior "grammar schools," and the rest going on to conventional secondary schools. He will also implement Wilson's decision to open no new universities for the next ten years and instead to pour money and talent into expanding the existing ones...
Religious Hotbed. What brings out the fanatic in some Iranians these days is the Shah's "White Revolution," so called because he hopes to implement it without bloodshed. In a desperate effort to bring his country into the 20th century, the Shah has worked to introduce 1) land reform, 2) nationalization of the nation's forests, 3) sale of government factories to private businessmen, 4) profit sharing for workers, 5) amended electoral laws, and 6) mass education in 80% illiterate Iran through a national "literacy corps...
...this cause, says Stampp, the North served as unwitting accomplice. Lincoln's assassination propelled Andrew Johnson into the White House, a kind-hearted and derivative man anxious to implement Lincoln's injunction to let the South up easy. To staff the governments of the secessionist states, he granted wholesale pardons to Confederate officers and civil servants-and such men did not waste time accepting the chance to preside...
Congress should move to implement the conclusions reached in the 1964 Surgeon General's Report, the Senator believes. But, "we don't want a scare approach," she added. Instead, she has proposed a bill that would require cigarettes packages to carry "hazardous to health" warnings and give tar and nicotine contents. The bill would also force every cigarette advertisement to contain a "hazardous to health" warning...