Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Local barber shops have lost from 20 to 60 per cent of their business in the past several years, with the real plunge coming since last fall. The University Barber Shop on Mass. Ave., which used to employ nine barbers, now has a staff of six, only three of whom are full-time...
...similar incident occurred at Brandeis University about a year ago. Students there protested a gift to Brandeis by the Raab family owner of the Stop and Shop supermarket chain. They alleged that the Raab Foundation received funds from the CIA and that Stop and Shop charged higher prices inghetto areas. The Raab family did not withdraw its gift...
...under personal contract to the paper. There are no longer any time-wasting jurisdictional disputes, because there are no more jurisdictions. Printers help out stereotypers, stereotypers assist pressmen, pressmen lend the mailers a hand. Even reporters are called on to run copy and dirty their hands in the back shop. Hearst himself is in and out of the newsroom and the pressroom, sometimes answering the telephone or composing type. "He seems real happy with the job we're doing," says a reporter...
Unlike their Western counterparts, the Soviet sailors are not allowed to let off steam in foreign ports. They go ashore only in groups escorted by a petty officer, take in local museums, points of historical interest, and window-shop. They buy few souvenirs, avoid bars and prostitutes and never tip. Usually they return to their ships by nightfall. In the ports along the Mediterranean where the Soviet fleet has displaced the Western ones, hawkers and whores are dismayed by the spartan conduct and serious demeanor of the Russian sailors...
...rough customers, says Savoretti. "They have enormous skill in playing the competitive game, in playing one offer against another. They turn around and around, and finally they arrive." And he finds that the international competition in Moscow is getting more intense as others learn the benefits of setting up shop there...