Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Outfit. If the rakehell wants a drink after the legal 1:30 a.m. closing time, he need only walk over to the Variety Lounge on Broadway and knock on the door marked "Family Entrance." There, at 3:30 on a recent morning, a two-man band was in full swing, and 50 people kept two bartenders in constant motion. Gambling? In East Chicago, there are poker games almost any night upstairs over the Nu-Oriental Restaurant, and poker, pinball and betting on the horses at Forsythe Billiards. For a full Baedeker tour of the county's delights, the visiting...
...hard-boiled area of steel mills and oil refineries with an abrasive ethnic mix, northern Lake County has not only been invaded by thrill seekers from shuttered Chicago; the crime syndicate, known locally as "the Outfit," has also found a cozy haven there. So cozy, in fact, says a local minister, that today Gary, with a population of only 178,000, has "every problem, vice and crime known...
...three girls had all trooped over to the Manhattan boutique of Designer Arnold Scaasi to replenish their spring and summer wardrobes. Mama Anne McDonnell Ford, 46, picked an evening outfit of bright pink sequins, but her girls, Anne Ford Uzielli, 23, who expects her baby in December, and Charlotte Ford Niarchos, 25, whose child is due this summer, bought loose-fitting, quieter frocks of black lacquered lace and peau de soie. Since Charlotte and Anne are both beatified on the Best Dressed list and Mrs. Ford is canonized in the Fashion Hall of Fame, the New York Herald Tribune...
...Thornton anticipates a big expansion in the banking business; with Diebold locked in, a Litton salesman will be able to outfit a whole bank, from typewriter to vault. For its part, Diebold expects to use Litton's broad technology and fat treasury to expand. Under the terms of the deal, Litton will not have to dilute its common stock; it plans to exchange 1,118,000 "participating preference" shares for Diebold's 2,601,000 common shares. Though the preference shares are convertible into Litton common on a one-for-one basis, Diebold investors will be induced...
...Interstate Commerce Commission, ordinarily a pretty lethargic outfit, loudly cried crisis a couple of weeks ago. There was such a severe shortage of plain railroad boxcars that the ICC felt it necessary to issue emergency orders in an attempt to get produce and products moving again...