Word: counterman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where shoppers buy regular-size cigarettes at 39? a pack, conventioneers visiting the Big Town can pay the big price at the New York Hilton newsstand-52? for nonfilter regulars, 53? for other kinds-and get some big lip too. "Because that's what we charge!" jeers the counterman at anyone who questions...
...will retire as chief executive of the nation's largest restaurant chain-675 restaurants, 175 motor lodges and annual sales of $127 million-to let his son take over. Young Johnson went to Andover, Yale and Harvard Business School, got his education in the business by moving from counterman to candymaker and finally, five years ago, to president. "I feel rather like Yogi Berra," says Sports Fan Johnson. "He says sure he can be a manager, because he does know a bit about baseball." Young Johnson will concentrate on spreading the chain westward...