Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...July-dated issue of Motion Picture, Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper wrote a bare-fanged ''open letter" to Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Excerpt: ''Have you a complex about losing babies? You lost two unborn children, one in 1958 and the other in 1959. Is it true that, in sorrow, you even put vodka into your bouillon?* Marilyn, don't drink . . . It won't bring back the baby...
Citation: "We hail him for the wisdom and the balance of common sense with which he has conducted the unimaginably complex affairs and borne the awesome burdens and responsibilities of the highest office of our land...
...Chicago's Continental Casualty Co., which had underwritten performance bonds on Hayes's projects. Subcontractors who said they had been unpaid stopped work for Hayes on an Army housing project in El Paso. At several other Hayes projects for the military, subcontractors complained that Hayes's complex of companies had not been paying them for their work. The Hayes organization called a halt to all these projects...
...Pennsylvania and its subsidiaries, said Perlman, are in the process of developing a huge rail complex. Eventually, he went on, there will be only two competitively balanced rail systems in the East, and the Central must be "an inte gral and important part of one of these systems." It expects to take part in any merger worked out by the B. & O. and the C. & O., and even to act "as the base" for such a merger. Merger talks between the Central and the two roads are "continuing," but Perlman wants to be in on the preliminaries...
After three months of complex dealing, a giant new corporation shouldered its way last week into the top ranks of low-priced specialty chain stores. The new company, the McCrory Corp., was formed from three chains-the B.T.L. holding company (a corporate shell of the Butler Brothers variety chain), United Stores Corp., and the McCrory-McLellan Stores Corp. With 461 stores, the new company will rank fourth among U.S. low-priced chains (first three: F. W. Woolworth, W. T. Grant, S. S. Kresge). The man who masterminded the merger is Meshulam Riklis, 36, who in only nine years has risen...