Two widely known merchants last week crisply advised their fellow retailers that it is time to get more deeply involved in civil rights. In New York, in a sharp speech delivered at the National Retail Merchants Association convention, Charles Y. Lazarus told his colleagues that they must personally take a part in the urban crisis that has storekeepers "living on a volcano." And Neiman-Marcus President Stanley Marcus announced that henceforth civil rights will be as important a factor as price, quality or delivery time in what his six Texas specialty stores in Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston buy.
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