Word: grocer
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...showcase for his benefit. Not so, said Nixon. Besides, he added, did not the Russians bring their prettiest girls to model at the New York exhibit? Kozlov admitted that Nixon had a point. Speaking of markets, the Vice President mentioned that he himself was the son of a California grocer and was reared in a modest economic background. In turn, Kozlov confided a rare item of autobiography: "I was one of nine children. Five of them died in childhood because of a lack of enough to eat. Two were killed in the war. There is only my sister and myself...
Washington's Albert Dean Rosellini, 49, son of an immigrant Italian grocer, was a freewheeling Seattle criminal lawyer and 18-year state senator, won his four-year term in 1956. His overoptimism on tax estimates, plus the recession, ran up a $48 million deficit in his first biennium, which he dealt with in this year's legislature-Democratic in both houses by the largest majority since New Deal days-by pushing through tax boosts that set off a short-lived taxpayer revolt. In Protestant-majority Washington, Rosellini shivers at the fear of a Catholic presidential candidate calling attention...
BRAND-NAME BATTLE Grocer's Profits v. New Consumer Foods...
...GROCER Eouard Leclerc of Landerneau, France, and Homebuilder John Long of Phoenix, Ariz, have much in common: they are both young entrepreneurs who have startled their respective industries by bringing low costs and high volume. See BUSINESS, Apostle Behind the Counter and How to Live Like a Star...
...week of Edouard Leclerc, a young (32), socially minded and devout Frenchman who is sparking a revolution in French food-selling practices. Leclerc, who started out by studying to be a Roman Catholic priest, changed his mind, and decided that he could help the poor more by donning a grocer's apron and bringing down the cost of living. Nine years ago, with $40, he opened a stall behind his house in Landerneau, near Brest, offering staple groceries only 8% above cost. Today some 30 Leclerc-sponsored groceries are operating in Brittany, Normandy and central France, and the movement...