Word: averter
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...Zeller's Ltd., a Canadian variety-store chain affiliated with W. T. Grant Co., was appointed president of S. H. Kress & Co., sixth-largest U.S. variety-store chain (261 stores). He succeeds C. G. Trammell, who resigned in March with two vice presidents in an effort to avert a proxy fight threatened by the Kress Foundation, which holds 42% of Kress stock (TIME, March 3). Cobb was picked for the job by RCA Executive Committee Chairman Frank M. Folson, who took over as chairman of the Kress executive committee after the foundation forced a change in Kress policy...
...avoiding any other planes that might be in the area. Investigators assume that the TWA plane, climbing to avoid the bad weather, came up underneath the DC-7 and hit it. Neither pilot, had he seen what was happening, would have been able to adjust course in time to avert the accident...
...give up such sideline business as bars and bistros. The flight may not have been pure patriotism, but it was far from kidnaping. The exodus, with its complicated movement of wives and children, luggage and refrigerators and washing machines, was elaborately planned over a long period of time to avert suspicion, and not a single player appealed to the police for protection...
...University appears to have decided that "cooperation" with the City on such issues as student parking may help to resolve such largely political struggles as the recent Quincy House permit delay. But it is unfortunate that it has also decided to avert possible future troubles by unnecessarily restricting student parking...
...chance-a warning that the U.S. does not want to be forced to choose between France and Tunisia. Diplomatically as it was phrased. President Eisenhower's letter was a clear threat that, if France took its quarrel with Bourguiba to the U.N., the U.S. would do nothing to avert the one thing the French dread-a full-dress Security Council debate on the Algerian...