Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monthly, but the company usually provides for board and lodging if the apprentice is training away from home. Siemens figures that each apprentice costs $1,000 a year to train, and is worth it. Though apprentices are not required to go to work for the outfit that trained them, 98% of them...
Equally outspoken was James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, the outfit that sponsored the Freedom Rides. Said he: "We do not ask the police of the South to be partisans, partial to our side; we do ask you to be impartial." Negroes, said Farmer, "are not afraid to go to jail now. They wear jail sentences as badges of honor. Not even being shot at terrorizes them. These people aren't going to stop...
...curious little pamphlet entitled R.S.G.-6 from the marchers. It outlined British plans in the event of a nuclear attack, even pinpointed emergency centers of government in case London is destroyed-along with hints that the marchers might want to picket one such site along their route. Publisher: an outfit calling itself "Spies for Peace...
...Casualty Insurance Co. (current market value: $19 million) last week, it was generally believed that the reason was to raise cash for real estate. In a joint venture with Builder Paul Trousdale, the Murchisons are constructing three huge housing developments in California and two in Hawaii. Their Centex construction outfit in Dallas is already building or has plans to build apartments, military housing or industrial parks in seven states. The Murchisons' two potentially most profitable projects are New Orleans East, a plant site and residential development that covers one-third of the total area of the city...
...puffed-up Edith Piaf even though today, at 40, she looks like a million. Merciless photography highlights the bags under the eyes and the wringing hands that are the stigmata of Judy in distress. And Costume Designer Edith Head has not helped by giving her a red chiffon outfit that makes Garland look like somebody had tried to stuff eight great tomatoes into a little bitty gown...