Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unleashed, the chain reaction of violence had one more stage to go. Next day. Guayaquil's slum dwellers, bitter over their poverty amidst Ecuador's growing prosperity (TIME. Feb. 23). came out looting, burning, battling soldiers for another night before martial law and exhaustion put an end to the outbreak that resentful Draftee García unwittingly touched...
...about 10,000 callers now active (the best of them make as much as $150 a night) and two dozen record companies providing recorded calls. There are an estimated 1,000,000 serious square-dance buffs in the U.S., as dedicated to learning the intricacies of the ladies' chain or the left-hand star as any Arthur Murray graduate student is to the mastery...
...disk jockeys' convention was not all payola. The sponsoring (Omaha-based ) Storz radio chain had, after all, slipped the word "seminar" into the official title. The jocks heard lectures on such subjects as "News Should Be New," "Do We Live and Die By Ratings?" (answer: yes), "Are Live Radio Commercials Dead?" (no, they just sound that...
...counterattack starts, as a divisional reflex, before the first question can be answered by the Far East command. But even before King Company can reach the first Chinese defenses, the rusty U.S. chain of command has snapped. The assault group is caught in the full glare of an Allied searchlight battery that has confused Pork Chop with "some other hill," and before the lights go out, a dozen or more Americans lie dead or wounded. Shocked and bewildered, the green troops nevertheless hold firm, then make a wild charge that carries the Communist outworks...
...fond is the shopper of gathering gossip along with the groceries that supermarket lounges are the coming thing. The Kroger chain (1,400 stores) is putting lounges in all its new supermarkets, with foam-rubber sofas, partitions to dampen noise, vending machines that serve drinks and food. To keep the kiddies busy-and teach them that the supermarket is the place to bring mom-supermarkets have blossomed with circuslike kiddy corners and amusements. Among last week's offerings: a cartoon theater, now used by 75 supermarkets, that seats up to 40 children, changes its 20-minute show every week...