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Cupcakes in Hot Pink. For all their financial pinch, the carriers are still revving up frills and frippery to woo customers. Pacific Airlines not long ago put its stewardesses in "hot pink" uniforms and advertised them delectably as "cupcakes." Staid Northwest Airlines added a mink collar to its stewardess attire last month-and lifted hemlines just above the knee. To whip up interest in its South American routes, Braniff has just introduced such gourmet dishes as Cebiche Peruano de Pescado (raw fish steeped in lemon juice) and Arroz con Pato Chifa (marinated duckling in soy sauce with date, rice...
John Cahaly, son of world famous Ralph Cahaly and co-owner of Cahaly's Market, will open an op-pop-psychedelic shop on Thursday afternoon. "Serendipity," next door to the staid, venerable market, adds a seventh element to the flower power battle in the Square...
...hoped-to reach until 1975, is due to increased buying and selling by institutions that trade in large blocks of stock and thus shoot the totals higher. Many mutual funds, adopting a speculative mood, are turning over the shares in their portfolios far faster than they once did. And staid organizations outside the market are also coming in. Yale University two weeks ago announced that it was forming an investment company to plow more of its endowment money into lucrative common stocks. Such moves mean more paperwork for the exchange's 648 member organizations. But more active trading also...
Parallel To Massachusetts Avenue, away from the noise and neon of Harvard and Central Squares, Kinnaird St. aspires to gentility. The shrubbery and patches of grass are ragged, but the narrow, four-story houses, with clapboards painted in variations on brown, are staid and even attractive. The area looks much as a neighborhood of college students and young Cambridge couples should look...
...assault. The battle was joined by James Joseph Ling, 44, chairman of Dallas-based Ling-Temco-Vought, who during a nine-day fight for control of the company had eventually made a tender offer valued at $560 million-one of the biggest ever. But by week's end, staid Allis-Chalmers, which is the area's biggest employer, had delivered L-T-V its first defeat-however temporary-in Ling's long takeover history...