Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michael Cahaly, a white mustached Syrian, has banked his fortunes on undergraduate caprice for the past twenty-five years. Together with Raphael, his younger brother, he keeps Cahaly's grocery store open every day and far into the night to cater to the owlish tastes of students for late snacks, Pogo, and Mickey Spillane...
...invite them to church. Suburban business houses have a 'Welcome Wagon.' But we Democrats have been content to let newcomers arrive with no reception at all-and because they're left alone, they've often joined the other church and started trading at the other store...
Like many unregal newlyweds, Paul and Frederika spent their first married years in obscure battle with the household budget. King George II never hung so much as a new set of lace curtains in the palace without shopping every store in Athens to find a proper bargain. In Paul's small villa at Psychiko outside Athens. Frederika's time was mostly taken up by caring for her babies, making over old clothes, and poring over the accounts to see if Paul's allowance might stand inviting a few close friends to dinner...
...Houston's Museum of Fine Arts held its first show of 36 Italian and Spanish paintings of the 15th to 18th century, a "permanent loan" from Collector Samuel H. Kress, 90, the dime-store tycoon (TIME, April 27). Among the best of Houston's windfall: a warm-hued Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds by Titian and his brother Francesco, fascinating with its bright but strangely stormy sky; Goya's A Maja and Two Toreros, its gaily clad figures oddly accented by the sinister tones of its wooded background. Under Kress conditions, Houston would not have gotten...
Thompson replies: "You've never seen any shortage of oil," and argues that his chief concern is to avoid waste, not keep up prices. Once oil is brought up, some of it is lost through evaporation, handling and leakage. So says Thompson: "The best place to store oil until you need it is in God's reservoir...