Word: piri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fresh assembling of facts and seeking of opinions. Our aim is to provide in one article both a brief summary of the recent past with an indication of what is to come. For this week's survey, our reporters in the field filed 250,000 words. Researcher Piri Halasz, who covered the "head office town" of New York, interviewed 15 top executives and economists. Her report to Writer Marshall Loeb and Business Editor Robert Christopher totaled 50 pages. In Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Detroit, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Washington, correspondents talked to some 35 chairmen and presidents...
AMONG earnest car shoppers in many cities and towns throughout the U.S. last week were TIME correspondents, doing first-hand research on the battle of wits between salesman and buyer for this week's cover story on Ford Dealer Jim Moran (see BUSINESS). Researcher Piri Halasz roamed through showrooms in New York City and New Jersey, brought along an uncle who was once a car salesman himself. Correspondent Bill Shelton borrowed Correspondent Marvin Zim's Volkswagen as trade-in bait, made the rounds of Chicago car dealers, found Jim Moran's salesroom harder to escape from without...
...wiretapper for West Coast Gangster Mickey Cohen. From the 'cars sprang a group of boys representing two rival East Harlem street gangs, the Young Conceiteds and the Untouchables. They swaggered to the front door, where waited Vaus, 41, and his first lieutenant, a Puerto Rican named Piri Thomas. 32. who once served six years for shooting a New York...
...Syracuse, New York." If the men who worked on TIME'S cover story are something less than fumaroles, the women make no secret of their affections. Head Business Researcher Mary Elizabeth Fremd burns up more than 20 cigarettes a day, prefers her smoke unfiltered. Researcher Piri Halasz, who went through hundreds of reports, pamphlets, company statements and books for Jamieson, has been a smoker since her freshman year at Manhattan's Barnard College: "I tried hard to start in high school, but I didn't like the taste." She now smokes at parties and at work...