Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his research, Cone found that when a cancer cell divides, it sets off a chain reaction. He suggests that an electrical signal accompanying division in the first cell flashes through the network of bridges to other cells in the group, causing all of them to divide nearly instantaneously. This process, Cone believes, helps explain the uncontrolled proliferation of cells that characterizes cancer...
Died. Ralph W. Burger, 79, retired president of the vast ($5.4 billion annual sales) A. & P. food chain founded by the Hartford family; of diabetes and heart disease; in Daytona Beach, Fla. Burger's 52-year career ran from grocery clerk to the top job before he quit in 1963. In 1951 he doubled his duties by becoming head of the John A. Hartford Foundation. As remuneration from the foundation, he stipulated only one red carnation each...
Knocking on Doors. Since going public in 1967, Clubman's has increased its capitalization to $50 million. It has acquired an advertising agency, a vending-machine company, and a chain of betting shops that now number more than 100. The company has also spread into liquor sales and auto rentals; three weeks ago, it signed a conditional agreement to acquire Ace Industrial Holdings, an amusement-machine manufacturer that earned $1,400,000 before taxes in 1968. Last year, spurred by acquisitions, Clubman's revenues leaped from $1,100,000 to $37 million, while profits reached...
After dinner in town, we headed back to the cabin. Eric had gone back earlier to set up for the evening's shooting. When the rest of us arrived, around 6 p.m., the cabin's road was chain-locked and inaccessible. The chain was the province of the granite quarry next to the cabin, and Eric had our key. Rather than walk up the road to get it, Tommy and Tim decided to walk straight through the snowbound forest...
Died. Grover Magnin, 83, specialty-store magnate, who helped build I. Magnin & Co. into a 21-store chain that became the prime West Coast source of haute couture, was named president in 1944 when I. Magnin merged with Bullock's of Los Angeles, but was later eased out of office by the Bullock faction; in San Francisco...