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Working in New York after the war, he met toothy, tawny-haired Eunice Kennedy at a cocktail party. Joseph P. Kennedy, impressed with his daughter's handsome, 6-ft. suitor, offered young Sarge a job at his Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Shriver accepted and eventually moved up to assistant general manager of the Mart; he wed the boss's daughter in 1953, and they settled down in a 14-room duplex. Shriver's energetic involvement in local affairs, most notably as president of the Chicago board of education for five years, prompted some pols to tout...
...famous Peachtree Street. The central tax base, which doubled in the '60s, is expected to grow half again as big before 1980. All together, some $3.3 billion in construction has been scheduled for the next few years, including a 70-story hotel, six office buildings, a trade mart and a $1.3 billion rapid-transit system approved by voters late last year...
...Oxford English Dictionary (abridged) defines emporium as "a pompous name for: the Mart 1839." The Spaghetti Emporium, 33 Dunster Street, is a pompous excuse for a restaurant in Harvard Square. It opens for lunch at 11:30 a.m. and remains open until midnight Sunday through Wednesday and until 1 a.m. Thursday through Sunday...
Wine sold through the Houses is supplied by Berenson's Liquor Mart of Boston. They provide the wine at case price and students selling the wine make a small profit...
...have been murdered. Through it all, the police made no move to intervene. Who are the Falcons? Spokesmen for President Luis Echeverría Alvarez put the blame on a right-wing student group known as "Muro." But many Mexicans suspect that the city government is involved. Mayor Alfonso Martínez Domínguez, a former head of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institutional, denounced the students and denied that the city has the Falcons on the payroll. At week's end, the students issued a statement calling for the mayor's removal...