Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prices in thousands of shops - France's legion of small shop keepers almost immediately began pushing prices up. In Paris, roughly 1 in every 10 shopkeepers broke the line and marked up prices an average of 5%. Last week the workers, reacting to the austerity program, were staying home from work in greater numbers than at any time since the nationwide shutdown in May 1968. The strikes constituted the first real challenge to Pompidou's authority and could well lead to an early showdown between his fledgling government and France's huge, Communist-dominated labor unions...
Workers on the nationalized railways struck for seven days, halting 60% of France's trains and stranding hundreds of families home-bound from vacation. The trainmen finally settled for about a two-hour reduction in their 46-hour work week. In Paris, a wildcat strike of subway workers brought the underground Metro's 17 lines to a virtual standstill. When bus drivers joined in, as so often before, Paris became a city of pedestrians and monumental traffic jams. Post-office workers served notice that they intend to walk off their jobs next week...
...well-heeled guests at the charity affair knew the entertainer's depressing story of debts and eviction, an unpleasant irony that was not lost on Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. Since then the couple has contributed 10,000 francs toward a down payment on a new home for Josephine and her "fraternité universelle" -twelve adopted children of all races and nationalities. The St. Louis-born singer and her brood, after losing their chateau in the south of France, have now moved into a lovely white villa on the coast at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. "This is the proof that...
...thriving business making and selling their brown suede "stash bags" for from $3 to $5. Industrial Designer Darrell Howe likes the fashion so much he is designing a shoulder bag to be used by his Los Angeles staff, but he admits that he left his own at home on a trip last week to Dallas. "There are certain areas where you can move with a shoulder bag," says Howe, "and other areas where you would be eaten alive...
Scheiber's process is new and virtually untested. But it does have one great commercial virtue-compatibility with existing hi-fi systems-for it requires only an "encoder" at the recording studio and a "decoder" in the home of the listener (in addition to the extra amplifiers and speakers). Yet whether the Scheiber system or something like it will really end by saving old-fashioned platter records from the tape revolution depends on the public. No one knows how record collectors will face up to the trouble and cost of replacing their favorite old recordings with new ones-either...