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...detonate an explosive he had presumably carried on board under his clothes; such a bomb would not be detectable with present airport security systems. The leader was a beefy, bearded man. "He was the goon, but he was nice," recalled one passenger, James Perkins, a regional sales manager for Schenley. "He kept his hand in his pocket all the time, as if he had a gun." One of the skyjackers was a young woman who claimed she was an American and was married to another member of the group. The terrorists were polite once in command, distributing...
Died. Lewis S. Rosenstiel, 84, prodigiously hard-working founder of the liquor giant Schenley Industries Inc.; in Miami Beach...
...that they are merely responding to a change in consumer preference, they also assert, paradoxically, that most drinkers cannot tell the difference in taste between 86-proof and 80-proof whisky anyway. Consumer resistance to the change, they say, is small. Still, some brands have not joined the trend. Schenley Industries, for example, is running ads pointing out that its Ancient Age bourbon is still, at 86 proof, as strong as ever. Also, there is a stern limit to the watering-down trend: 80 proof is the lowest the Federal Government will let a distiller go and still call...
...galvanize support for his fledging farmworkers' union, Cesar Chavez struck upon the idea of a mass march on the California state capitol. As Chavez said later to Jacques Levy, a former New York Times reporter, "We wanted to use the march for calling attention to the strike [against Schenley liquors] and we wanted to take our case to Governor Pat Brown. But also we wanted to take the strike to workers outside the Delano area, because they weren't too enthused...Equally important to me--and I don't know how many shared my thoughts on this--was this...
...meet one who wants the U.S. to stay exactly the way it is. But they have in kindred spirit a sense of orderliness, of tidiness. They are fond of saying that their political stance is 'evolutionary, not revolutionary.' It was in this meaning that Richard Frank, vice president of Schenley Distillers, Inc., rolled his eyes heavenward and summed up his political desires: 'Please don't rain...