Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howe: "He sure acts funny at times. Just where do you draw that line between being colorful and being punchy?" But the Rocket, bearing down on opposing defensemen, is still one of hockey's great sights. Says the Canadiens' Executive Frank Selke Jr.: "Richard sets off a chain reaction whenever he gets the puck, even if it's just a routine pass. It's strange and wonderful, the way that he communicates with the crowd." Explains the Rocket simply: "I hate to lose...
...Defiant Ones. The chain that links two escaped convicts, a white man (Tony Curtis) and a black (Sidney Poitier), comes to signify, as Stanley Kramer's melodrama rises to its climax and its moral, the tie that binds all men to one another (TIME...
...lean, fast-moving salesman's salesman, he ran one of the biggest sales departments for Macy's, the world's biggest store, became the star salesman of the biggest brokerage house; and now, as president and chairman of Safeway, the world's second biggest grocery chain, he has more than doubled the chain's profits in three years...
...ready-to-wear department. He next took a turn at advertising, but soon found it was not his kind of selling: "I thought a lot of what went on was just air." When he met Lingan Warren, the autocratic genius who had built Safeway from nothing into a huge chain, he made such a good impression that Warren asked him to go to California. Magowan had worked up to be Warren's administrative assistant when he was asked to go back east and help run the brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane (now Smith). Although Founder Charles...
...meeting last week in Manhattan, stockholders took advantage of their new rights to question Burger on A. & P.'s profit margins, heard that they are 1.06% on the dollar, lowest of any top food chain. Grumbled one stockholder: "Isn't that too low?'' Replied Burger: "The company does not believe in profiteering on food. The food business is not a gold mine, and you cannot mine gold from...