Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concern with roots in the countryside. Ministers and military administrators tended to run their departments in the same way?and were certainly not encouraged to venture far from home during the blurry succession of military-backed strongmen who held power before Thieu. As a result, there was simply no chain of command that Thieu could rely on. Instead, he found a government of intensely jealous fiefdoms, whose bosses would pass on orders only if they suited their purpose...
...that International Management, Inc., the agency that handles Palmer as well as Jack Nicklaus, is greedy. Recently Mark McCormack, the 39-year-old attorney who built International into the nation's largest player management company, turned down a suggestion for a chain of Arnold Palmer art galleries. "It didn't seem to make sense for Palmer to represent himself as an expert on art." What did make sense was arranging singing lessons for Gary Player, presumably in preparation for the day when Ed Sullivan calls. Everybody is calling for Jean-Claude Killy. Since signing the Olympic ski champion...
...Washington stores in the High's dairy-products chain have been held up 317 times in the past six months...
...weakest link in the chain of major currencies, the French franc is the primary source of world monetary instability. The immediate fate of the franc rides on the long-awaited wage negotiations between Charles de Gaulle's government and French labor unions. Last week, three days after they began, those talks collapsed in acrimony. French unions called a 24-hour general strike for early this week and set the stage for a showdown that could determine whether France can avoid devaluation-and whether the world can escape new monetary dislocations...
...Hollywood cliche in itself. The son of poor Russian immigrants, he scraped for nickels and dimes on Manhattan's Lower East Side, invested in beer concessions and amusement parks, finally in 1919 had enough of a stake to join Marcus Loew in founding the movie-house chain that spread across the U.S. MGM studios followed in 1924, and Schenck, armed with such stars as Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy, harvested huge profits even during the Depression. The studio's fortunes declined after World War II as Schenck continued to order up thinly plotted thrillers and meretricious...