Word: shored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week things reached a climax of sorts when Odinga, in his first direct attack on his President, rose at a rally on the shore of Lake Victoria to de clare that Kenyatta had fallen under imperialist influence and was all but taking his orders from the U.S. and Britain. It brought an outraged response from Kenyatta's Cabinet ministers, who called the attack "cheap politics" and "calculated to further the cause of Communism." Five party leaders, already angered by Odinga's role in Communist arms imports (TIME, April 23), signed a petition demanding his resignation from...
...almost as expensive. Fringe benefits, for example, add up to as much as 55% of the average salary, compared with only 16% in the U.S. Besides providing cradle-to-grave medical and pension plans, companies in Italy are also expected to provide such extras as summer camps at the shore, low-cost housing and nurseries for employed mothers. French companies with more than 15 employees are required by law to provide lunch at greatly reduced prices. A German is more likely to change jobs for a better Betriebsklima, or working climate, than for more...
...opened 405 desks in Penney stores to take catalogue orders directly from shoppers or by telephone, and is adding 50 more to increase the $630 million business written up last year from its glossy 1,098-page, 65,000-item catalogue. Penney is about to build, in Bay Shore, L.I., its largest "new-generation" store, which will have three floors of merchandise, a restaurant, a beauty salon, and a 20-bay auto center that will dispense Penney gasoline and the company's Foremost* tires. Even the soft goods have changed dramatically: though Penney has kept its prices moderate...
...dean that Harvard had "shot me down." In Chicago an attractive, intelligent girl learned that she had been rejected by Mount Holyoke. "I kept saying to myself I'm not going to cry,' " she recalls. "Then I went up to the library and cried. At exclusive North Shore Country Day School m nearby Winnetka, one of the school's brightest boys was turned down by Harvard and Stanford. Said he: "I' ve been shafted by society. I'm thinking of defecting to the Russians. Maybe I'll join the Mafia...
...desert-style. It is relatively cheap; Maxwell sells three turns around the slightly more than half-mile course for 50?, versus about $15 an hour for a motorboat and driver. There is no speedboat wake to cope with. And after a spill it is only a short wade to shore in a mere five feet of water...