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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes and sponsors' pleas ringing in his ears, Scarfe finally turned off the tube and sought the relative quiet of our editorial offices. There he converted a conference room into a bizarre workshop. The staff watched with growing curiosity as he collected an improbable mess of dismembered store-window mannequins, overturned cornflakes boxes, scattered cigarettes and disarrayed lingerie, and began to stuff it all into a gutted TV set. With hammer and saw, glue and plaster, Scarfe concocted a many-armed "assemblage." For a final fillip, he managed to attach a serving of spaghetti- which was no mean trick...
...clashes began after 500 leftist students announced their plans to occupy an unused downtown department store, which they hoped to convert into a with-it club for evenings of pop music and hippie happenings. Conservative city fathers decided that the heart of Zurich's hallowed banking section, from which the city's famous Gnomes conduct their mysterious business, was no place for such a frivolous establishment. The students arrived to find the department store ringed with police...
They reacted by bombarding the police with street cobblestones and beer bottles. The police charged with truncheons and hauled many of the students into the store's cellars, where they were severely beaten. Fighting spread all over the main streets of Zurich and dragged on until dawn. Next evening, there were more clashes when students stoned a police station where 20 youths were being held. In all, about 50 students and police were injured in the clashes. It was a rude awakening for Zurich, which so prides itself on its peaceful setting that its road signs announce: "A quiet...
...country and making the French Canadians feel at home outside Quebec. Already, Trudeau is appealing to young Quebecois to go out and "see how beautiful it is in British Columbia, see how the Atlantic breaks on the granite shores of Newfoundland, see the tremendous adventure that is in store...
Jewel also began picking up other supermarket chains. It bought Eisner Food Stores (downstate Illinois and Indiana) in 1957, New England-based Star Markets in 1964, and the Buttrey supermarkets in Montana and Idaho two years ago. Moving abroad, it acquired stakes in one supermarket chain in Italy, another in Belgium. Jewel has also sensed a future in smaller food-store operations, is moving rapidly into franchised "convenience" shops and "Chef's Pantry" stores in high-rise apartment buildings...