Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police helped precipitate the 1965 uprising ?Los Angeles, like other cities, has set up rumor-control centers. If an inflammatory incident occurs, police immediately tell their side of the story to the local rumor-control officer. He calls four friends and each of them calls four more; the chain continues until a large part of the community knows that there are at least two sides to the story. "It's very loose-knit," admits Reddin, "but it gets the word out. And the people involved aren't known as finks...
...store's 31-year-old chairman, Sir Hugh Fraser, who succeeded his father two years ago. "It ranks with Buckingham Palace and the Tower." Now Western Europe's largest department store, Harrods is the pride of the House of Fraser Ltd. (1967 sales: $243 million), the chain which bought the eight-store Harrods group for about $100 million...
...feels ill at ease in the East and lacks rapport with fellow intellectuals in Manhattan. Not that she always makes things easy for them. She is even racier in her talk than in her writing, and does not hesitate to correct someone's erroneous ideas about a movie. A chain-smoker, she exhibits that edge of insecurity of the almost emancipated woman. About the only publication she refuses to write for is Playboy, because of its condescending view of women. "For a woman to write for Playboy," she says,"is like a Negro being against civil rights...
...each evening and in one day-long concluding session, Father Gavin divided them into small groups, confined them to a room for tension-producing "sensitivity training" in which the only conversation permitted was the emotional reaction to their experiences. Mrs. Robert McCarty, wife of a Phoenix thrift-store-chain manager, said that she had thought she "wouldn't want to sit and eat with unshaven, dirty people." But in doing so at a mission for derelicts, she had discovered that "they're not really so different-just worse off." Otis Garnand, an auto-parts dealer, was moved...
...most dramatic expansion has come in high-profit, nonfood lines. Unlike other food chains, which are often content to put general merchandise on the grocery shelves, Jewel early chose to diversify in depth by acquiring the Midwestern-based Osco chain of drugstores and Boston's Turn-Style discount stores. Under Jewel, Osco has grown from 30 stores to 133, Turn-Style from four stores to nine. A growing number of these outlets now are situated under the same roof as grocery operations, providing shoppers with one-stop service for everything from canned peas to cameras, drug prescriptions to complete...