Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rusty-spoon." Customers still take "epicurean pleasures" by ordering seven hamburgers for $1 while waiting for their cars to be greased and oiled outside. The sleazy dining room is decorated with a rack of used shotguns and rifles, draped with a six-foot belt of machine-gun blanks. The counter area is brightened with stacks of knives, machetes, auto parts and a shelf of used pistols...
...rest of the month, the problem of undelivered securities and accounting confusion remains so severe that two organizations last week took drastic steps to overcome it. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the largest U.S. securities firm, imposed a "house rule" forbidding its salesmen to sell over-the-counter stocks for customers unless they first have physical possession of the certificates involved. The National Association of Securities Dealers, a trade group which polices the over-the-counter market, drafted a similar rule for its 3,700 member firms-but set no date for the procedure to become effective...
...execution atmosphere enveloped San Francisco as the Republican Party convened to nominate its presidential candidate. Lyndon Johnson was at the zenith of his popularity. The G.O.P. was preparing to counter him with Barry Goldwater, an all-but-certain loser. The economy was booming, taxes were down, the cities were more or less tranquil, and Viet Nam was a relatively far-off rumble...
...Nations, Mr. U Thant, is reported to have said, in connection with Vietnam, that in war, the first casuality is truth. The Nigerian civil war is today another painful reminder of this phenomenon. Claims of a special Ibo Jewishness and Catholic Christianity vis a vis other Nigerian groups, and counter-claims of an Ibo plot to dominate others, have cluttered the scene...
...Interstate shipment of handguns to individuals and their over-the-counter sale to out-of-staters had already been prohibited in the previously passed omnibus crime bill...