Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebrations had an additional significance because Wyszynski chose to emphasize a theme for which he and his bishops have been attacked by Gomulka's regime: the need for Poles to forgive neighboring Germany for its World War II crimes and forget the historic enmities that divide the two peoples. "We stand on Calvary," preached Wyszynski in the moonlight, "and hear Christ's words of forgiveness for those who crucified him. From Jasna Gora, we the Polish bishops, and God's representatives, we also forgive." "We forgive," the crowd thundered back, and the fields echoed with applause...
...show-business circles, that same rule has long been unofficially enforced. English Actor Jimmy Stewart chose to change his name to Stewart Granger because of a well-known American in the same trade. Now he would have to make the change as a matter of law. In fact, the names in question need not even be exactly the same. Similarity will suffice. Even so, the owner of the Chevron gas station on West Third Street in Los Angeles is not worried. Though he displays his name on a huge sign, Linden Johnson figures that the other fellow is too busy...
...through franchising. Winokur opened one Donut shop, slowly added six more. "I wanted to expand," he says, "and I didn't have enough money." Winokur decided to license other businessmen to run his shops, now oversees 230 of them, with 45 more about to open. Big Sheraton Hotels chose franchising as a way to broaden the chain's image and get better use out of its vast Teletype reservation system. Of 120 Sheraton hotels and motels, 47 are now franchised...
...problem with the new arrangements became clear last fall when the committee met to chose directors for the spring term and found that three of its five members had themselves submitted applications for main stage slots. A second arose this Spring when the committee elected a majority of technical workers over actors and directors...
...prove it? Typically, the police chose more interrogation. Ten days later, they persuaded Di Gerlando to finger Danny as the killer. Rushed back to headquarters along with Grace and Chan, Danny was hustled into an interrogation room with his hands manacled behind his back. No one warned him of his rights to silence and to counsel. Once more, Wolfson hurried to the station house. He and Danny got a brief glimpse of each other through a half-open door, but the police told the lawyer that Danny