Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make life harder for Western spies and duller for Communist partygoers. Since last month's trial and execution of Oleg Penkovsky, the scientific official who was convicted of slipping secret information to British and U.S. agents, the Soviet press has been urging comrades to "break the criminal chain of espionage" by showing "revolutionary vigilance and being ideologically well-steeled...
...experiment in heliborne assault tactics, are providing the Army with invaluable operational experience in new doctrines of guerrilla warfare. "We're writing the book of tactics ourselves," says Major Ivan Slavich, 35, commanding officer of the U.T.T. Company. In combat, the Hueys usually fly a circular "daisy chain" pattern so that each ship is always covered by the chopper immediately behind it. "Our machine guns have more actual killing power," says Slavich. "But our rockets seem to have a much greater psychological effect on the Viet Cong...
...newspaper antagonists could hardly be more dissimilar. Seltzer was born in a cottage back of a Cleveland firehouse, quit school in the seventh grade to work as a $3-a-week copy boy. At 20, he was city editor of the Press, the oldest paper in the Scripps-Howard chain (founded in 1878). Thirty years Vail's senior, he still works like a dray horse, turning up at 6 every morning and averaging five hours of sleep a night. "We have a lot of young people on this paper,'' he says. "They keep their hot breath against...
...balances, it may well be that the enthusiastic consumer will seldom again feel that he needs to save as much as before. One businessman who believes so is Federated Department Stores' Ralph Lazarus, 49; he began in the bargain basement and is now president of his family-run chain, which extends from Filene's in Boston to Foley's in Houston. "The American consumer now enjoys profit-sharing, private pension funds, health insurance and social security," Lazarus points out. "All this has the effect of increasing the spendable part of disposable income, and it also increases...
...opened its sooth store last week, a coast-to-coast chain known as McDonald's Hamburgers was busily changing the neon signs that have long recorded how many million hamburgers it has sold. Now the signs will flash the figures in billions, a success reflecting the bustling U.S. phenomenon of which McDonald is an example: franchising. The number of franchised "Mom and Pop shops"-small businesses that rent their name, product, design and sales methods from big franchisers-has grown to an estimated 100,000, which this year will take in more than $1 billion. Eleven hundred companies...