Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chain reaction, neighborhood groups, civic associations and P.T.A.s began exploding-among them a Citizens' Advisory Committee for Cambridge, including Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey, Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting, M.I.T. Chairman James R. Killian Jr. Public Relations Wizard Edward L. Bernays became so fired with the cause that he set up an Emergency Committee for the Preservation of Memorial Drive. Said Bernays: "This is a broad action to serve the public interest. The feeling of personal bereavement is terrific. Someone asked: 'Do you think we should chain ourselves to the trees?' There are people going...
Demonstrators started off by picketing a local chain of restaurants. After two weeks and 24 arrests, the owners agreed to serve Negroes. When other restaurant owners still resisted, Walden again counseled against demonstrations. At a Summit meeting, an angry young Negro shouted, "To hell with you, Uncle Tom," and walked out; others followed immediately. The Summit Conference itself then decided to go along with the militants...
...half of them move to other towns or states in the process. The increased mobility of the labor force is drastically altering the 4,300 U.S. employment agencies, which until recently have usually limited their operations to a single city or region. Today's trend is to chain agencies, which process job openings and applicants nationally. The pioneer of the chains, and the biggest of them, is Philadelphia-based Snelling and Snelling, whose 119 offices in 29 states last year found jobs for 100,000 Americans and brought in $6,500,000 for the company...
...four pennies, others made a sixpenny cut in chocolates and a one-shilling chop in razor blades. Most appliances were reduced anywhere from 10% to 30% in the big stores. Scotch whisky was marked down 10% in many stores. Said Jack Cohen, chairman of the powerful 340-store Tesco chain: "The cut prices still show us a very good margin of profit...
Marriage Revealed. Louise de Koven ("Wendy") Wanamaker, 22, daughter of John Rodman Wanamaker, chairman of Philadelphia's Wanamaker department store chain, herself an accomplished horsewoman; and Richard Hendriks Jr., 27, formerly the family horse trainer (now employed by New York's P. G. Johnson Stables), the son of a New Jersey butcher; some time in the last half of 1963, but just when and where everyone declines...