Word: cater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maritime unions, which have been trying for years to get Congress to apply tight laws to foreign cruise ships that cater to Americans, claimed that if the Yarmouth Castle had flown the U.S. flag, she would never have left dock in Miami. A former skipper of the ship, Andrea Amatruda, 43, was even more blunt. Anyone booking passage on the Yarmouth Castle, he declared, was taking a "calculated risk." Unconcerned, passengers in Miami last week continued to troop aboard other equally ancient cruise ships for Nassau...
Easy Transition. The book clubs are no longer the threat they once seemed -and neither, of course, are the paperbacks. Sellers say the clubs cater to many people who could not get to a bookshop, otherwise help store sales with generous advertisements in national magazines. Paperbacks, which give the seller only half the hardcover markup, have proved to bring in buyers who would never have been attracted otherwise, also introduce many younger people to serious reading. "Soon a person is going from a 75? novel to a $5 novel," says Joseph B. Anderson, owner of a bookshop in Larchmont...
Into Le Drugstore. Wagons-Lits now runs and partly owns more than 40 hotels and restaurants in ten countries. Its 16,000 employees (specially trained in two Paris schools) staff restaurants or bars in most of Europe's railway stations, also cater meals for 33 airlines. The firm also retains a 25% interest in Thos. Cook & Son travel agency, shares quarters and billing with it in many cities. Having built France's first motel in 1955, Wagons-Lits feels that motels are the big business of the future in Europe, has already invested in eleven in seven countries...
...University of Texas law graduate who had worked for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, the State Department and the Pentagon before joining the White House staff last month. Helping out with speeches if necessary will be Press Secretary Bill Moyers, General Aide Jack Valenti and Special Assistant Douglass Cater, an old journalistic hand...
Hair Cuts & Cattle Feed. In its drive for more sales, the gasoline industry is also building hundreds of huge truck stops that cater to practically every need of the drivers. At Wildwood, Fla., Pure Oil has just opened a 23-acre, $550,000-station that includes-in addition to 28 pumps-a motel, restaurant, barber shop, clothing store and free shower-&-steam-rooms. In North Lima, Ohio, an American Oil truck stop includes feeding facilities for traveling cattle and a rabbi to supervise shipments of kosher meat, which must be watered down every 72 hours between the slaughter...