Word: breathlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorite. The excesses of the protest movement are beginning to produce substantial dissent against dissent. Pollster Louis Harris reports that 70% of Americans feel that the demonstrators are hurting their own antiwar cause. As for Democratic defections, they are not likely to be as widespread as the breathless publicity surrounding them would indicate. A survey of delegates to the 1964 convention shows that 87% still back the President; if past Democratic behavior is any guide, many of those who have strayed from the fold will be back in time for the campaign...
...hanging breathless on thy fate...
...nonetheless multiplying fast; they now account for about $15 billion in annual sales. S. S. Kresge Co., which last year passed Korvette as the biggest discount chain, has 204 K Mart discount stores and plans to add 50 new ones in the next year. In the face of such breathless expansion, as well as the aggressive stances of established department stores, many a marginal discounter may be doomed. A discount furniture store in Atlanta, for example, went broke after Rich's, the city's largest department store, consistently matched its prices...
...Suburbs. Under the tandem supervision of Fred and Ralph Lazarus, Federated has grown at a breathless pace. The company, which includes Bloomingdale's and Abraham & Straus in New York, Burdine's of Miami, Filene's of Boston, Foley's of Houston and Goldsmith's of Memphis, has built so many suburban stores that last year, for the first time, branch sales exceeded those of big downtown stores. In 1964, in its latest acquisition move, Federated took over Bullock's of Cal ifornia, which includes I. Magnin & Co., a Bullock subsidiary with 20 stores that...
Married. Jean-Luc Godard, 36, director of some of the French New Wave's most imaginative films (Breathless), and Anne Wiazemsky, 20, star in his forthcoming La Chinoise and granddaughter of Nobel prizewinning Academician Francois Mauriac; he for the second time; in Begnins, Switzerland...