Word: vow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water. Bulletins on his rapidly weakening condition were issued twice daily at the Golden Temple. At week's end Master Tara Singh, his strength nearly gone, could no longer press his palms together in the traditional namaste greeting to his evening visitors. But he stuck doggedly to his vow: "I will have Punjabi Suba or death...
...under different corporate names so that customers will not demand equal bargains in the parent stores. And virtually all traditional department stores are rapidly borrowing many of the discounters' methods. Old-line retailers such as Boston's Jordan Marsh and Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co. vow that "we will not be undersold," and match discounters' prices for specific items. On the theory that shoppers delight in the adventure of picking out their own merchandise. Manhattan's Macy's and the nationwide Federated Department Stores group have added self-service and checkout counters...
...write the contract for Ford Motor Co.'' But the American Motors settlement was bound to put pressure on the Big Three to improve their offer. It was doubtful that the Big Three and the union could reach agreement before the Aug. 31 deadline, and the U.A.W. has vowed that it will not work without a contract. Oddly enough, Labor Day, which falls only four days after the deadline, provides a special incentive for Reuther to temporarily relax his vow. Provided they work both the Friday preceding and the day after Labor Day, U.A.W. workers will draw $10.9 million...
...commemorate the 15th anniversary of Philippine independence. Among the stops on his itinerary: Corregidor, which he was forced to flee in 1942; Fort William McKinley cemetery, which honors the thousands of his troops who did not get away; Leyte beach, where he fulfilled his "I shall return" vow 2½ years later...
Around in Rags. Father Zimmers' lay theologians will take no vows, practice only such asceticism as is normal for laymen. "We may go around in rags," says Keene, "but it won't be because we've taken any vow of poverty." Once a year, they will gather to trade ideas and take exams in their continuing studies "to prevent them from getting to be theological slobs," says Zimmers...