Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the night, Chinese mortars and artillery pounded a 20-mile chain of tiny outposts. Before dawn the Chinese hit, and hit hard. Grim ROK troops fought off the Chinese at the foot of one hill, but retreated from four others. A few hours later, the ROKs gamely stormed back, recaptured two of the fallen hills...
...Jimmy Plinton, a U.S. Negro visiting Haiti, tried to send a pair of pants to the cleaners. This event set off a wondrous chain reaction which 1) revolutionized Haitians' dress habits; 2) started a major new business in Haiti; and 3) turned Jimmy into one of the most popular characters in the little (Maryland-size) Black Republic...
...Avellino last week, the 35th and latest in Marzotto's chain of "Jolly Hotels" opened its doors. Like the others, Avellino's three-story, 41-room hotel is designed for "the masses of small tourists with small means but a natural desire for comfort, cleanliness and amusement. There are few carpets, but plenty of bathrooms, few chandeliers but ice water in every room." Rates on tourist floors average $2 a night, and for $6 a tourist can get board and lodging, including use of a swimming pool. To 58-year-old Tourist Marzotto, one of Italy...
Marzotto's hotel chain is only a small part of the industrial empire he has built. Starting in 1926 with two family woolen plants and a few hundred workers, he added five factories, built employment to 13,200, working 1,800 looms and 80,000 spindles. His factories last year spun out 23 million lbs. of yarn and about 14 million yards of woven cloth. Among Marzotto's other enterprises: a marble-producing plant, a sugar factory, a 6,177-acre model estate on the Adriatic in northern Italy at Portogruaro, equipped with 75 tractors and a small...
...Chain of Command. In Cleveland, William Otto, 70, got a divorce after testifying that his second wife Hulda, 61, insisted that he attend séances, told him he must obey her orders since she was getting instructions from his deceased first wife...