Word: hartfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consumer resistance. For the first nine months of this year, overall retail sales are only 4% above their 1968 pace-less than the rate of price increases. Even in Southern California, where department-store sales are generally up, one discount-store manager, Paul Hulse of Redondo Beach's Hartfield-Zodys, detects a downturn in sales of color televisions, luxury refrigerators and stoves. To meet the competition of discount stores, Sears, Roebuck has opened some 175 of its 825 stores for business on Sunday. Retailers-and automakers-can take heart from a historical pattern detected in a University of Michigan...
Died. Brian Jones, 26, grass-and-groupie-plagued rock musician, lead guitarist for Britain's Rolling Stones until his pullout last month in a dispute over the group's future musical direction; by drowning; in his swimming pool at Crotchford Farm in Hartfield, Sussex, the 15th-century farmhouse where A. A. Milne created Winnie the Pooh. A onetime garbage collector, Jones was musically memorable for his driving guitar in such hits as This Could Be the Last Time and It's All Over Now. Twice convicted on marijuana charges, he was severely fined but spared a nine...