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Oxygen Debt. In a room that looks more like a home-economics lab than a hospital ward, women wash and iron clothes, bake custards and brownies, make dresses on a sewing machine. Men work in carpentry, repair the sewing machine (the actual trade of one patient), walk to and from a desk carrying stacks of books, use filing cabinets. Pulse checks are made before, during and after any exertion, but the most valuable gauge of heart strain is a gadget called a "respiration gasmeter," which tells Dr. Steinberg most of what he wants to know...
...Weak Link. The men of Sears usually display a prescience that has helped the company pull away from such competitors as Montgomery Ward and J. C. Penney. Long before World War II, convinced that automobiles would revolutionize merchandising, Sears pioneered residential stores surrounded by parking space; the postwar rush to the suburbs reaped spectacular sales. The proliferation of discount houses has had little effect on Sears: 95% of its merchandise is in house brands (Allstate, Kenmore, Homart, Silvertone) that discounters cannot carry and that, in any case, are generally priced 20% under competing brands...
Republican Charles W. Long '62, surprising everyone but his own campaign staff, swept to victory yesterday in a contest for the seat of Boston's traditionally Democratic Ward 21 in the Massachusetts state House of Representatives...
...Ward died last year aged 76, and last week his stamps were sold for a record $1,100,000. The buyer was up-and-coming Stamp Dealer Raymond H. Weill, who seems intent on making New Orleans the new stamp capital of the U.S.; three months ago, he set a record by paying $78,400 for a two-stamp 1847 Mauritius cover. The Ward collection, now stashed in the silver vault of New Orleans' Whitney National Bank in 93 wooden boxes the size of whisky cases, will be broken up and sold piecemeal. Weill hopes to sell...
...holiday stock they need, like to get rid of whatever is left quickly in order to cut their interest payments and clear their stocks for spring merchandise. "Business between Christmas and New Year's is always fabulous," says Robert Daly, Chicago district manager for Montgomery Ward. "It is an exciting time in the retail business...