Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Julia Ghilione Skouras, 67, widow of Movie Theater-Chain Executive George P. Skouras (over 200 United Artists houses in 50 cities), herself the tireless, unpaid international chairman of Boys Towns of Italy, who regularly toiled 14 hours a day organizing committees and arranging benefits to support the ten towns and 31 nurseries which now shelter 6,700 Italian orphans; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; in Manhattan...
Quat's unpublicized talks with Saigon's Catholic leaders have won him at least passive support from that quarter, and his handling of the military has also shown promise. When a group of junior naval officers mutinied against Admiral Chung Tan Cang - thus setting in motion a chain of military movements that could have ended in a coup -Quat quickly brought the mutineers to trial for breach of discipline. At the same time, he suspended Cang pending a full investigation of the mutineers' charges: graft and malfeasance. Military order was maintained, and the customary Vietnamese tactic...
...buyers also picked up Salvador Dali's $30,000 Triumph of the Sea, and a $24,000 Gainsborough called Dr. Pulteney. Anyone who does not have that kind of cash, of course, will still be able to enter almost any Woolworth store and buy, from the chain's collection of reproductions, Gainsborough's Blue Boy for just...
...eliciting open confrontation with the North. In such an event the odds are that Russia could not stand by and watch the United States fight a massive war in Vietnam without intervening. It is true that the Russians and Chinese might well "lose" the ensuing conflict. Nevertheless this entire chain of prospects seems totally repugnant to both American interests and ideals. Following the argument out to its logical conclusion suggests the incredible intellectual poverty of those who have been reduced to believing that America should undertake this course...
Harvard learned about the marijuana activity through a complicated chain of communication. A freshman who had smoked marijuana was overheard by his when he discussed it with a friend during spring vacation. The irate parent contacted the president of the local Harvard Club, who in turn called a member of the administration here to alert him the situation...