Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their food off the ground. Market women launched a counterbarrage of rotten tomatoes, and that ended that. In Paraguay, fire hoses were used against the women but were no match for flying vegetables. Presidents & Doctors. Though most market women barely manage to keep their families alive, some strike it rich. In La Paz, a hard-working market woman can make $100 a month, which is twice what a Bolivian civil servant or factory worker makes. Two years ago, when a market woman applied for a U.S. visa in La Paz, she was asked about her financial security and produced...
...earth's few remaining absolute monarchs last week tried to give an order and failed. This distressing occurrence befell aging, ailing King Saud of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, who, 14 months ago, let his able half brother, Prince Feisal, take over the job of running the country as Prime Minister...
Chief villain is the rich wall-to-wall carpeting, without which no new office is self-respecting. The deeper the pile, the worse the shock-particularly if the material has a high synthetic fiber content, which gives a carpet outstanding durability but equally outstanding shock qualities. Next comes wool, with cotton at the bottom of the shock list. A com pounding factor is the increasing prevalence of metal desks, typing tables and wall trimmings, which are brisk conductors of any static charges that anybody can scuff up. Driest days are the worst. When the humidity falls below 20%, executives view...
Founded in France in 1946 by Armand Marquiset, a rich Catholic nobleman, the Little Brothers came to Chicago four years ago, have successfully tested their technique of "luxurious charity" in several French cities and in Montreal, Naples and Casablanca. The 50 permanent members of this "pious union," who get financial and other aid from 1,000 associate and auxiliary members, are all Catholic laymen, although they take monastic vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. They also have to become master chefs during their novitiate, and many have been trained by Paris' famed Cordon Bleu cooking school...
Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank, the Midwest's biggest bank (assets: $4 billion) was once known as "The Sleeping Giant of LaSalle Street" because it conservatively plowed its rich deposits into low yield securities. Today, advertising itself as "The Big Bank with the Little Bank Inside," Continental is wide awake to the potential of retail banking, allots 60% of its funds for loans, and stresses "family banking." Continental's Benzedrine was administered by Chairman David M. Kennedy, 58, who came to the bank as a bond officer in 1946, after 16 years as debt manager...