Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Première (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Ralph Bellamy, Bradford Dillman, Bettye Ackerman and George Voskovec are the guests in a drama called "Chain Reaction...
...Zantzinger downed two fast drinks at the bar, then whacked the restaurant's hostess and its elderly sommelier with a wooden carnival cane that he had picked up somewhere. Coaxed into checking the cane, he lunged at the wine steward's cordial tray, then his neck chain, caught a sharp elbow in the stomach in return. Zantzinger had two double bourbons with his steak; Jane Zantzinger, four double Cutty Sarks with her prime ribs. When the head barman refused to serve more, Jane hopped to another table, sipped from the glasses of its surprised occupants. Zantzinger left...
...truly or falsely -as discounters. The Arangos' impact is the more remarkable because the brothers, all college-educated in the U.S., were treated as outcasts by their own class when they opened their first store with a loan from their wealthy father, a textile tycoon and onetime store-chain owner himself. Mexico City's department stores banded together to drive out the upstart that dared to offer brassieres at 13% under list, kitchenware at 15% and refrigerators at 20% under. But Mexican shoppers nearly overran the store, sometimes scooping up goods so fast that the brothers...
...Monterrey, Guadalajara and beyond to get their merchandise. They sponsored a television show called The 64,000-Peso Question, used some air time to whip up public opinion. The turning point came when the Arangos opened two new stores. ''They knew then," says Jeronimo, president of the chain, "that we weren't any fly-by-night operation. We were in business forever...
...Arangos have had better luck than one of the originators of chain discounting that Jeronimo Arango studied in New York. In Manhattan last week, with $4,000,000 in bills piled up, Masters, Inc., filed a bankruptcy petition. Masters, which has seven stores in the New York area and four more in Pennsylvania and Florida, blamed its fall on too rapid expansion and poor store locations...