Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alan Balsam, chief shop steward of the Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Employees Union, last week attacked the decision, arguing that the shift changes and transfers it would necessitate "will put many workers...
...given the facts of life in Hinsdale, where the median income is $26,340. While many of the town's corporate executives pay hip-service to conservation by boarding the crowded Burlington Northern for the commute to Chicago, their wives and children spend their lives in automobiles. To shop in a big supermarket, housewives must drive three miles to Oak Brook. There is no local public transportation system-and none is contemplated. In Hinsdale, where families with two or more cars are the norm, the auto rules not only the road, but life. Among the most popular makes: those...
...Chicago popularity might have the pharaoh twirling in his tomb: pyramid hair styles, Cleopatra eye makeup, scarab rings, mummy bead necklaces, wallpaper sporting Egyptian goddesses, Tut towel and pillow sets. The newest disco dance is a stimulating shuffle called the King Tut Strut. One women's shop has achieved the living end in Egyptian necrophilia: its main window features a mannequin wrapped in masking tape to look like a mummy...
...Some demonstrators fought police hand to hand with daggers and sticks; others bared their chests and dared security forces to shoot them. Although police backed away from many confrontations, troops in Karachi fired on an impromptu demonstration, which had been organized during a curfew break to allow residents to shop and attend Muslim services. At least 20 people were killed and 200 wounded. Last week's violence raised the death toll to about 250 since the troubles began nearly two months ago. At least 4,000 people have been injured and 35,000 arrested...
...just as popular. Says a buyer at Chicago's Marshall Field: "We are selling all we have." In Los Angeles, Designer Lore Caulfield says that demand for her slinky satin camisoles has been so overwhelming that she has had to ration them. In Palm Beach, where the Martha shop has had instant success with corselettes and camisoles, Co-Owner Lynn Manulis calls them "a very provocative above-the-table look." Joanne Stroud, professor of literature and psychology at the University of Dallas, bought two Saint Laurent corselettes. Her mother was shocked. Says Stroud: "I think she got the idea...