Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knack household. The husband is a low-wage railroad worker already supporting five children. He blamed the local pharmacist, who had misread the handwriting on Frau Knack's prescription, for the birth of Thomas. Arguing that the error would strain the family budget, the Knacks took Pharmacy Owner Hans Reimer to court to recover damages...
...flat-rate manuals, many garages prefer to use independent books that list longer work times-and thus higher charges-for each job. Whatever the manual, the cost of labor ordinarily is figured at $7.50 an hour, which is generally split fifty-fifty between the mechanic and the garage owner. Thus both have reason to complete as many jobs as possible in less than the set time...
Tourists roaming the hilltop house read with interest the titles of the books the owner kept in his bathroom, view the bullfight posters that dot the walls, pose for pictures beside his typewriter. Then they line up to sign the guest book, usually in Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, even Vietnamese. The house, a museum maintained by Cuba's National Council of Culture, was Ernest Hemingway's retreat just outside Havana. Of the nearly 18,000 yearly visitors who tramp through, over 70% are Russian. "The Russians have a great respect for Papa," said the caretaker, former Hemingway Servant Rene...
...Nonetheless, beware the chef's signature. A restaurant in New York's Greenwich Village offers Spaghetti Alfredo, which turns out to have nothing to do with the restaurant of the same name in Rome. In stead, as the menu footnotes, it is "Spaghetti-Freddy style." Gallatin Powers, owner of Gallatin's restaurant in Monterey, Calif:, explains the genesis of the chicken, orange juice, and ginger concoction he calls Poulet Albert simply: "I have a son named Albert...
...approach were very much like A Group Of The Guys From Nini's. They looked me over, shoved my temporary student I.D. card toward me (Jody Adams is a Yale Undergraduate from November 4 to November 6) and sent me, with a guide, to find my room and its owner, my "student host...