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...Answering this demand, the big, successful discounters are turning into cut-rate department stores. San Francisco's Government Employees Together, a clublike discounter aimed at Government workers, claims a wider diversity of goods than any of the city's regular department stores. Los Angeles' William Phillips Co. carries gifts, clothing, luggage and records, even added a liquor department this year. Manhattan's E. J. Korvette (estimated 1957 sales: more than $70 million), which calls itself a "promotional department store" and is even listed on the New York Stock Exchange, has quickly fanned its discount selling into...
AIRLINE PASSENGERS will get a wider choice of fares and flight services, if CAB approves examiners' recommendation. United Air Lines plans a fourth type of service, "custom coach," pegged between first-class and cut-rate (day and night) coach flights, which would match flight times of best first-class flights but stand lower in passenger "extras" and price...
...TRAFFIC JAM will be eased under new CAB plan to prevent armed forces from declaring vast areas of sky off-limits to any but military flights, thus crowding commercial planes into narrower lanes and causing costly flight delays. Board figures alloting more space for commercial flights will also create wider, safer buffer space between military and civilian areas...
...only of our two nations but of the Western world, and of all those countries of Asia and Africa that have been nurtured in the noble and fruitful ways of the common law." He went on to evoke and delineate "a doctrine which we both share with a wider community even than that of the common law ... I refer to the doctrine of the law of nature...
Barbara Lea (Johnny Windhurst Quintet; Prestige LP). Wellesley's gift to pop music launches her across-the-cocktail-table voice into a collection of beautifully phrased ballads that deserve a wider hearing-My Honey's Lovin' Arms, Gee, Baby Ain't I Good to You, Baltimore Oriole...