Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wait until their accountants calculated just how the new rates would affect them. The prevailing attitude was that of Chairman George S. Dively of Cleveland's Harris-Intertype Corp., who said that even though the reforms "will tend to encourage capital spending, there will be nothing big overnight...
...crucial votes that would be cast to keep the Conservatives in power, but could later be withheld at the appropriate time to bring Diefenbaker down. Its triumph was the victory of a shouting, arm-waving French Canadian auto dealer named Réal Caouette, 44, who overnight became a national figure. Le Tonnerre, he is called in rural Quebec-the Thunderer...
...Algiers' Maison Blanche airport, hundreds camped out overnight in order to be first in the morning's queue. A woman refugee offered her car for sale for $100 but found no takers. By week's end, there were so many refugees and so much luggage crowded into the stifling waiting room that twelve women fainted and a mother with three children broke down in hysterics. Shocked by the scene, French repatriation officials declared the airport off limits to new refugees until the 4,500 already there could be flown out. In the next two weeks, to deal...
...Paris Couturier Givenchy, who started the whole thing in 1958 when he clapped wigs on his mannequins' heads. He thought it was a gag. Three years later, American women, slow to see the joke, finally saw the potential: brunettes, with only one life to lead, could turn blonde overnight; straight-haired women could have the curls they pinned for; a Cleopatra by day could let down her own long hair at night, without having suffered the irreversible decision of a haircut; two heads, or three, were clearly better than one. More expensive too. A wig of all-human hair...
...Nonsense. Now MCA is planning to move into moviemaking as a major producer. Key to its new role is a planned merger with Decca Records (which controls Universal Pictures). In the new combination, MCA will be the senior partner, thus making it overnight into a major Hollywood studio. At the same time, partly as a result of prodding by the Justice Department, MCA will probably divest itself of its talent-agency business, which last year amounted to only $8,400,000, v. $72.6 million from television films and studio rentals...