Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Caldiera had been in an adjoining teller cage on Tuesday when a man, keeping his right hand in his pocket, walked up to the counter and presented a robbery note. He received $1875, and then proceeded to drop $500 of it while hurrying out of the bank...
...wonder. The bash that brought out Rome's smart set last week was the opening of Italy's largest supermarket, a two-story, 33,000-sq.-ft. expanse within sight of St. Peter's that stocks 20,000 products and has everything from a lunch counter to a dress shop...
...store is the latest addition to a fast-growing, American-owned international supermarket chain called Minimax (for "minimum prices, maximum quality"). Minimax is devoted to the idea that the emerging consumer class in Europe and elsewhere strongly wants such Yankee selling innovations as self-service, the checkout counter, prepackaged and frozen foods, big stores and plenty of parking space-and it tries to give them what they want in each of its 19 stores. Sometimes the buyers are so eager for American goods that they act a bit ridiculous. Last week's shoppers at the new Minimax snatched...
...editorial which appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON about last Friday's counter-demonstration was not entirely fair...
Some of the effects of the counter demonstration were indeed distasteful but I feel that the CRIMSON editorial presented a badly distorted picture...