Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Alice Brock and her shortlived hash house have been immortalized in song and screenplay, she is making the most of it. She is franchising a coast-to-coast chain of Alice's Restaurants; the first four (in Boston, New York, Nashville and Los Angeles) are scheduled to open this year. Money is already pouring in from her Alice's Restaurant Cookbook (Random House; $5.95), which has a first printing of 40,000 copies...
...meeting last night, however, Harvard students discussed the North Harvard St. situation and started a phone chain, which will be activated when an eviction attempt begins. Members of the chain will go to the site and try to prevent the Deputy Sheriffs from carrying out the eviction, a member of the SDS anti-expansion committee said...
Residents of Prague find it almost impossible to buy towels, diapers, flashlight batteries, handkerchiefs, women's underwear, sheets, pillowcases and baby carriages. The shortages have spawned a new black market, and parents now chain their baby carriages to guard against theft. Construction has slowed so drastically that of 6,000 new apartments planned for this year, fewer than 100 have been completed. Because of a lack of coal, the government has reduced supplies available to schools and homes-a harsh step as cold weather approaches-and has cut electricity to "nonvital" industries...
Rising Rebellion. Last week TIME correspondents in a dozen cities interviewed 50 large and small retailers-and many of their customers-about the rising rebellion against high prices. Smaller retailers have been complaining for months, while big department stores and chain stores continued to do quite well. Now that pattern may be changing as consumers tighten their purse strings...
...most conspicuous backslider is Actor Van Dyke, a chain smoker who joined the townsfolk in signing the pledge and says: "I really made an honest effort, but I was climbing the walls. It was terrible, terrible," Others include Bill Marshall, a Greenfield insurance agent who resisted temptation for only one day. That night, he was awakened by a telephone call from a farmer whose barn had just been blown down in a fierce storm. Marshall reached for a cigarette-and kept on reaching, Jim McCutchan, manager of Greenfield's I.G.A. grocery store, was hooked again after three days...