Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until they found themselves waylaid outside town by a steaming radiator, broken drive shaft, clogged fuel pump or flat tire, and brought here. Usually they are towed in by Jon Lunsford, 40, soft-spoken Mormon and "the Boss," or by his ace mechanic, Cliff Cole, 36, a chain-smoking drinker-turned-teetotaler, who likes to explain that he's "been working on cars for 40 years." The A & A is mainly a family business. On this, as on most days, Jon Lunsford's two oldest sons-Doug, 20, already married and the father of two, and Danny...
Whatever the source of his chagrin, Gicquel was soon out-Cronkiting Cronkite. The somber, chain-smoking Frenchman has brought an unprecedented measure of subtle and sometimes anti-government editorializing to French TV news-to the chagrin of about 75 viewers each week who write him to protest. He delivers himself of stronger opinions off-camera. Last year he produced a serious book about the impact of TV on French society. Called Violence and Fear, it has become a bestseller...
...Petersburg Times, Jacksonville's Florida Times-Union, the Chicago Tribune Co. (Orlando Sentinel Star, Fort Lauderdale News), the Cox Newspapers (Miami News, Palm Beach Post and Times), the Tampa Tribune and Wometco Enterprises (Miami's WTVJ-TV-each of which gave $25,000. The Knight-Ridder chain's Miami Herald, largest paper in the state, gave...
...affected news coverage of the casino gambling. One small exception: participating papers neglected to reveal their financial stake until forced to by last month's disclosure of campaign spending. Still, the Gannett Co.'s four Florida dailies declined to contribute, despite a personal appeal from Askew to chain President Allen Neuharth. The Miami News last week printed a letter from 47 employees objecting to the paper's contribution. "Nobody is censoring our copy," says Miami Herald Reporter Pat Riordan, "but this whole thing raises the appearance of a conflict of interest...
...King of Hearts, the musical version of Phillipe de Broca's Cambridge cult film which opens this week in Boston, moving to New York in the middle of October. When we met for an interview at Bartley's Burger Cottage last week, he was relaxed--although he did chain-smoke--open, friendly, and above all, interesting. Not to mention funny...