Word: st
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent years much of the chain's fast sales growth has come from shopping by foreign tourists. Oddly, they include many Arabs-though the chain's top officers are such fervent Zionists that Marks & Spencer is on the Arab blacklist. Middle Eastern customers must snip the St. Michael's label out of the clothing they buy before bringing their purchases home. Still, M & S has seen fit to post signs in its main branch stores warning against pickpockets in English, French, German, Arabic and Farsi (the main language of Iran...
...different from other modernized branches in the chain-is said to have had sales close to $1 million. M & S is looking for a formula that will appeal as much to dowagers and duchesses as to the present line of customers. Legions of faithful shoppers will be praying to St. Michael for M & S's success...
Long active in episcopal committees, Quinn won by a vote of 146 to 112 over a relative newcomer, St. Paul's popular Archbishop John R. Roach, 56. Roach was promptly elected the bishops' vice president, giving the hierarchy's more liberal element a voice near...
...middle of a flight to St. Louis to give a reading. I was reading a New Yorker story that made me think of my mother and all alone in the seat I whispered to her 'I know, Mother, I know.' (Found a pen!) And I thought of you-someday flying somewhere all alone and me dead perhaps and you wishing to speak...
...Hitler's Germany in 1938; of pneumonia; near Innsbruck. Taking power in 1934, he suppressed the Communist and Social Democratic parties but then came under growing pressure from the Nazis for Anschluss, or union. After spending the war years as a Nazi prisoner, he taught political science at St. Louis University for two decades and returned to Austria...