Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Byron Schermerhorn Harvey, 62, board chairman of the Fred Harvey restaurant chain (60 restaurants, nine hotels, 35 retail shops) originally founded by his grandfather in a Topeka train station in 1876 to make the travelers' lot a bit happier, in those early days, by giving them good food served by pretty waitresses in prim uniforms, later immortalized by Judy Garland's 1946 Harvey Girls; of cancer; in Chicago...
Most motel chains depend on an easily recognizable similarity to attract customers: Holiday Inns, for example, all have bright green neon signs, and Howard Johnson motor lodges feature the familiar orange roof. One chain has made a virtue of being different, though, and hardly has two establishments that are alike. It is Treadway Inns Corp., whose 28 hostels include such disparate stopovers as Nantucket's 120-year-old Jared Coffin House, once a whaler's mansion, a modern downtown motel in the Treadway headquarters town of Rochester, N.Y., and an Alpine chalet in Franconia, N.H., known...
...cater to what used to be known as "the steamer-trunk and rocking-chair fleet." But today's profit is in country inns and in motels that cater to transients and conventions, and Treadway is concentrating on these in its expansion. Despite the added costs of running a chain of inns in which neither the food, the décor nor the furniture are standardized, Treadway has set an enviable earnings record: on its $16 million in sales last year, it was among industry leaders in earnings per dollar invested...
...bushes that snatched away the initiative from the government forces and killed more than 1,000 South Vietnamese troops. The deadliest assaults came in the Red-rife Central Highlands, with the Viet Cong attacking in battalion and even regiment strength as they swept down from the craggy Annamite chain...
...mother of his children, lest there be some mistake-has been participating in the local arts festival rather more enthusiastically than anyone planned. Her pet project is a famous Italian composer-pianist (Rossano Brazzi). The two look at one another, and the sound track booms concerti. On a chain around her neck Maureen wears the gold medal Brazzi won at the festival, a clue that her course in music appreciation has advanced beyond the hand-holding stage...