Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near the Nha Be tank farm southeast of Saigon, Despite the constant allied watch on shipping along the entire 30-mile length of the Long Tau channel, which links Saigon and the sea, a Viet Cong frogman had attached a 100-lb. charge to the vessel's anchor chain. Damage was minor: one compartment was ruptured, but the jet fuel inside did not ignite...
...joke of the auto-parts industry twelve years ago, when he began hiring white-frocked mechanics to install gold-painted Midas mufflers and act like lofty physicians in "treating" croupy exhaust systems. Now the scoffing has given way to awed silence. Last year Sherman's nationwide chain of 460 Midas muffler (and other parts) shops grossed $42 million. This triumph has freed Sherman to pursue myriad private interests-Talmudic scholarship, oboe playing, rare-bird raising, the culture of orchids-and to cure social ailments as well as autos. He is, for instance, the endower of a new school...
Keeping Cool. More significant was the support given Nixon by the 17 Scripps-Howard papers, including the Washington Daily News and the Pitts burgh Press. All supported L.B.J. four years ago. "In the hazardous world of these times," said an editorial that ran throughout the chain, "including the miserable war in Viet Nam, we need a President who can keep cool, who can make a decision and carry it out, who knows when to hold his tongue and when to use it. Richard Nixon's experience and conduct clearly show these abilities. Hubert Humphrey, especially in this campaign...
...public administration institute will make a $25,000 study of Cambridge's manifold voluntary and public planning agencies during the coming year. The study will attempt to establish a clearcut division of labor and chain of command among the agencies...
...prices from $20 per sq. ft. five years ago to as much as $100 today, but businessmen seem undeterred. "The more there is, the more will happen," predicts Architect William L. Pereira. Honolulu's Dillingham Corp. plans a 1,000-room hotel, and the Broadway-Hale department-store chain is snapping up a site for a huge retailing complex. There is even a reviving demand for walk-to-work living, and lofty apartments are rising to meet it. For a city whose shape has been dictated by the automobile, that may be the most surprising change...