Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Zinder, French West Africa, came a report of another chain reaction. It began with the cover story on Gwilym Price of Westinghouse (TIME, March 2), in which the role of the company's star appliance salesman Betty Furness was mentioned and some of the latest kitchen marvels described, including a new super-automatic range "which will preserve even the newest bride from cooking disasters." A month later, from faraway Zinder came a note from George D. Beacham, which was published in TIME'S Letters column. In his letter, Reader Beacham explained that he was soon...
...West's big problems. Now it proved cumbersome when it had to treat with "local issues," like Trieste, Suez, the Saar. Korea was proof that multinational commands lead not to unity but to dissension, and the lesson learned there is that adding weak links to a chain does not strengthen it. Increasingly, the trend is for individual nations to go their own way, consulting their friends but not being bound by them...
...calorie foods, ranging from applesauce and peanut butter to French dressing and puddings. About 80% of U.S. supermarkets have added dietetic departments featuring low-calorie foods. Their sales total some $25 million a year, and within a decade, the industry thinks, volume should hit $140 million. Said one Seattle chain-store manager last week: "All you have to do to sell an item to a housewife now is put the magic word 'nonfattening...
Letter from Missolonghi. "I feel," wrote Byron's better self, "and I feel it bitterly, that a man should not consume his life at the side and on the bosom of a woman, and a stranger . . . But I have neither the strength of mind to break my chain, nor the insensibility which would deaden its weight...
...when Byron was 35, he found the strength, in his passionate belief in human liberty, to break his chain. He went to fight for the Greeks in their war of liberation from the Turks. In the midst of it all, he still found time to turn out verse and to twit an erring friend back home: "Pray who is the lady? The papers merely inform by dint of asterisks that she is somebody's wife and has children ... It is to be hoped that the jury will be bachelors...