Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Popcorn, happily, remains, but it comes in different paper bags now, and it's sold behind a forbidding teak counter. The walls of the theatre are what Kramer calls a "strange gray"--though the ceiling hasn't been touched yet. And of course the name is all different. Still, the redecoration is damned attractive and long overdue. And the movies scheduled are refreshingly similar to the UT's standbys. One can hand over that extra thirty-five cents in the new admission charge almost cheerfully...
...over Dick Nixon as less than a national mandate. The first major fight in Congress was over the Kennedy Administration's all-out effort to liberalize the House Rules Committee. The resolution carried by a scant five votes-and right then and there President Kennedy, a veteran vote counter, concluded that his domestic programs were in for trouble...
...raid, just before Christmas, was exactly what U.S. Lieut. General Lionel McGarr wanted. For months, McGarr and his Military Assistance Advisory Group have been drawing up a Counter-Insurgency Plan with staff officers of the South Viet Nam army. The plan aims at getting the South Vietnamese out of their defensive posture and into a mobile and determined pursuit that will carry the war to the heart of the Reds' jungle strongholds. Due Hoa represented the plan's first trial...
...uncle. Then his grandmother arrived to stay with the family, so Tomas set out to find another quarter for her gift. But somehow, on that day, nobody seemed to need rubbish hauled or had errands to be run. Entering a neighborhood grocer's, he saw 25? on the counter. He looked about; the coast was clear. He took it and went home...
...trusted stock specialists, Gerard A. Re and his son Gerard F., were accused by the SEC of five years of market rigging and price fixing that netted them an estimated $3,000,000. McCormick, it turned out, had had personal dealings with the Res in over-the-counter stocks. It was all perfectly legal, but its propriety was dubious. And almost immediately, more sloppy administration at the Amex came to light: the policing of its members was slipshod and records of transactions were incomplete. Then, to the everlasting annoyance of the rest of Wall Street, the federal investigation of Amex...