Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unanswered by Ben Bella was how Algeria will fare without the French. The stores in Algiers look prosperous and there are still so many cars that parking is difficult. But business is bad, and getting worse. Early this month one big department store chain closed its outlets in Algiers and four other cities. A staggering two-thirds of the work force is either unemployed or underemployed, fully half of Algeria's $525 million budget comes from foreign aid. Most of the food distributed is the gift of the U.S., while the government-regulated press fumes about U.S. imperialism...
...Chemists call a fat saturated if each carbon atom along the molecular chain has hydrogen atoms attached. It is monounsaturated if one carbon atom is free of the hydrogen bonds; it is polyunsaturated if two or more are free. *Amid a plethora of diet books, a new edition of Jolliffe's Reduce and Stay Reduced on the Prudent Diet (Simon & Schuster; $4.95) is the biggest seller...
...Bread Alone. Much of the independent grocers' gain has come at the expense of the 4,500-link A. & P. chain, whose sales slipped 2.3% last year, to $5.2 billion. "Image" means much in the supermarket business, and A. & P.'s image sometimes looks old. It appeals to shoppers who fondly remember A. & P. for the bargains it offered during the Depression days. But it has less attraction for the affluent 25-to-40 age group, which buys half of the nation's groceries. To tempt this younger crowd, A. & P; belatedly started distributing Plaid Stamps...
...Many chains are decentralizing to give more authority to their store managers, are paying them as much as $22,400 in annual salary-plus-bonus. Managers cultivate local trade with a host of gimmicks: some have opened soda fountains in their stores, and the Colonial chain offers chairs and tables for weary shoppers to rest beside the soft-drink dispensers. Stores are also staying open longer. Kroger two weeks ago started doing business on Sundays in Ohio, and Grand Union in Norfolk stays open 24 hours daily to accommodate the round-the-clock shipyard shifts...
Died. Leo Szilard, 66, famed physicist, who with Enrico Fermi in 1942 triggered the world's first nuclear chain reaction and thus made possible the atomic bomb; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. A Hungarian-Jewish refugee from Hitler's persecutions, Szilard foresaw as early as 1939 the possibility of uranium bombs, persuaded Einstein to lend his famous name to a letter to President Roosevelt in which he pointed out the danger that Germany might beat the U.S. to such a weapon; once his advice was heeded and the bomb developed, Szilard looked with regret upon...