Word: householders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tnnovation, Brussels' second biggest department store, and more than $1,000,000 in American-made goods were on sale at its six-story downtown store and four outlying branches. Bruxellois by the thousands jammed the main store situated on Rue Neuve to examine and buy American household gadgets, costume jewelry, sporting goods and nearly every kind of apparel, including paper dresses. Few paid much attention to picketing by pro-Peking youths or to the anti-U.S. tracts they passed out. To make the occasion thoroughly American, L'Tnnovation officials had splashed red, white and blue decorations...
...give and go to small dinner parties with such friends as the Eugene de Rothschilds, sometimes attend the theater or ballet on gala occasions. Each December they slip into London, where they stay at Claridge's, for Christmas shopping, returning to Paris for the Christmas party of their household staff...
...life in nearly the manner to which he was accustomed from birth. On the subject of service, the duke likes to quote his father's maxim that getting things done on a royal standard requires a man and a half for every job. For the Windsors' movable household, that means some 20 people, from the duchess' secretary down to an electrician-mechanic. "I call the duchess the cruise director," the duke explained last week to TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo. "She runs everything. The house is the ship." The duke's role on their perpetual cruise ship...
...determine whether waste can be burned far out at sea by incinerator ships, researchers elsewhere are trying to find a ready market for garbage compost. Since transportation accounts for 70% of the cost of waste disposal, another team is studying the possibility of using pipelines connected directly to household chutes to convey garbage-much as coal slurry is now carried-to distant incinerators...
...time he was twelve, Johnny had found his course. "That's when I answered a magazine ad that promised to make me a magician and also 'The Life of the Party.' " Not to mention the death of the household. He worked for hours every day at card tricks in front of the mirror. His mother says he was a pest: "He was always at your elbow with a trick." To this day, reports his sister Catherine...