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...FESTIVAL. "The Tenth Annual Monterey Jazz Festival." Selections from the "blues afternoon" of the 1967 festival, featuring such gospel and blues performers as T-Bone Walker, B. B. King, Richie Havens and the Clara Ward Singers...
Despite the risk for the authors, Western publishers go to considerable lengths to obtain Russian manuscripts. The latest literary contraband, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward, is at the very least a tribute to their competitive zeal. As of last week, it had already been printed in excerpts by two magazines, in full by one publisher, and was being readied for printing by at least two others-a wild maze of editions even for the strange world of literary smuggling...
When he left Montgomery Ward to join its more or less moribund mail order rival, Sears, Roebuck & Co., as vice president 44 years ago, General Robert Elkington Wood brought with him a long catalogue of eccentricities...
...company can only get bigger. Over the past decade, its net sales have grown by 97% to 1967's $7.3 billion, while profits have more than doubled to $384 million. It has long since outstripped its old rival Montgomery Ward (1967 sales: $1.9 billion), is approached only by aggressive J. C. Penney Co. ($2.7 billion). Last week Sears Chairman Gordon Metcalf, 60, reported first-quarter 1968 gross sales of $1.9 billion, a 13.9% rise over last year's first three months. Says Metcalf: "Nothing that I can see will change our direction...
...storefront was located in one of the housing units. Our permanent staff had become part of the community. In three days, we visited every family in the ward, many of them twice. In three weeks, the staff car had logged 1700 miles criss-crossing the area. One by one, we hoped we were prying votes away from the other Democratic contenders...