Word: outfits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...class in her pilot's exams-only to be turned down by Air France because long flights would be "too tough" for a woman. If a woman at the controls seemed odd to Air France, it did not to Air Inter, the fast-growing outfit that hired Jacqueline last May, and had her well up in a public-relations orbit before her first flight...
...arrive. To foil the Boche plan, a Scottish regiment sends in a wide-eyed private (Alan Bates), who finds the town empty save for the inmates of a lunatic asylum. Spilling out of their bin and into the town, they find an abandoned circus with enough period costumes to outfit nine road companies of Marat-Sade...
...crowded "crash" pad and returns runaways to their parents). San Francisco alone has such drug-derived service organizations as HALO (Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization), the HIP Job Coop, with 6,000 names on its part-time employment roster, and Huckleberry's (homes for runaways). In Los Angeles, an outfit called Kerista, founded three months ago by a former heroin addict named John Thomsen, provides pads and proteins for homeless hippies...
Kiotsuke! The Japanese drill sergeant called his platoon to attention so earnestly that his voice broke and the whole outfit burst into laughter. There was nothing for the sergeant to do but grin and bear it. For this was no ordinary bunch of boots, supposed to tremble at a drill instructor's every whim. The 70 young men in ill-fitting fatigues who stumbled through close-order drill at an army camp near Tokyo were all employees of the Tokyo Mutual Life Insurance Co. Their Taiken Nyu-tai (draft experience) was scheduled to last exactly three days...
I.M.C. is a small outfit ($299 million net sales in 1966) compared to some of its competitors in Madrid, but it offered the most experienced fertilizer-producing and marketing network that was available. The firm has mined phosphates in Florida since the early 1900s, is a partner in a phosphate mine in Senegal, West Africa, has a large share of a $70 million Indian phosphate-fertilizer plant scheduled to begin production this summer. And, I.M.C. pointedly is building the world's largest phosphoric-acid plant in Antwerp. Combined with the company's other processing plants around the world...