Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first chain, named Croissanterie, was kneaded by Jean-Luc Bret, 34, a former marketing manager for one of France's largest breadmakers. His aim: to "seduce women and children who hate going into restaurants alone." Jean-Luc's rolls-horreur!-are dipped in chocolate or flavored with coffee or stuffed with bananas, Roquefort cheese, mushrooms and a dozen or so other fillings. They are delivered frozen to the stores, and thus come from the oven as mushy as supermarket bread. Even so, the Croissanteries sell 50,000 rolls a day, plus Seines of soft drinks and coffee...
Bret has established ten Croissanteries and plans to open ten more next year. He already faces stiff competition from at least five other would-be top-of-the-roll tycoons, notably Fashion Designer Michel Axel, who owns Croissant-Show (a Franglais pun on chaud, or hot). Jean-Luc is now planning to invade the U.S. and teach burgerphiles to live by fast and fancy bread alone...
Nowhere, however, do the tensions and torments equal those in southern Florida, especially Bade County and its central city, Miami. More than half the Cuban refugees have been encamped there, joined by the vast majority of 30,000 black Haitians fleeing extreme poverty and the political repression of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. Thus Dade County confronts a challenge distinctive in American history: absorbing about 100,000 new residents, roughly equal to the population of Roanoke, Va., who for the most part are poor, unskilled, and unversed in the language of their new country, and doing it in just four...
BORN. To David Halberstam, 46, Pulitzer-prizewinning Viet Nam correspondent for the New York Times and bestselling author of The Best and the Brightest and The Powers That Be, and his second wife, Jean Sandness Butler, 33, former Times style-section reporter: a daughter, their first child; in New York City. Name: Julia Sandness. Weight...
Approximately 32,600 males from the Boston metropolitan area registered for the draft in compliance with President Carter's order, Jean Babcock, spokesman for the Boston district postal service, said yesterday...