Word: tavernes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spirited executive meetings, few companies can match New England's innkeeping Dunfey group. Twice a month in a second-floor room of Lamie's Tavern, the only place in Hampton, N.H. with a liquor license, gathers the company's top management team: Board Chairman Catherine Dunfey, 73, and Sons John, 44, president of the family firm, Gerald, 32, Walter, 36, Robert, 40, and William, 42. With a portfolio of some 30 subsidiaries in such varied fields as real estate, insurance, and turkey farming to consider, the agenda often runs right through lunch, dinner and a midnight snack...
...have run their course, most of the family's decisions are unanimous. And, says Vice President Bob Dunfey, "When there have been mistakes, no one says 'I told you so.' " One reason may be that there have been few mistakes. Since they acquired Lamie's Tavern, their first acquisition, in 1954, Ma Dunfey and her boys have increased sales from $500,000 to $10 million. Along the way, they have spread a string of nine motor inns and hotels through five New England states, grown from a mom-and-sons outfit to a company employing nearly...
...more than 60,000 Vietnamese living in France, only 700 actively support Hanoi, and only 53 signed recently circulated documents affirming their support of the North and of the National Liberation Front. Of the 150 Vietnamese restaurants in Paris, only five are Communist-run, most notably the Tavern of the Green Dragon and Uncle Ho's, a student hangout...
...sense, Congress is reflecting the mood of a nation that cannot understand all this upheaval. Its response is that of an ignorant tavern brawler. It lashes out to batter this strange opposition, to squash it so it won't be a problem anymore...
Only twice does this contrast come through--a scene in a local tavern where everyone gets good-and-old-fashioned drunk, and then Faustus tries to show off his black arts. Suddenly the division is there--everyone watches Faustus uneasily. He is a stanger; he is not one of them; he is damned...