Word: backe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Capital has worried Rosenthal ever since a family shortage of it back in Brooklyn during the Depression blocked him from entering Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He had to settle for N.Y.U., because his father, an up-and-down entrepreneur from Winnipeg, ran out of money. Rosenthal graduated summa, made an early splash on Wall Street, joined a group that took over a then bedraggled Citizens, and became its chief at 30. In the 34 years since then, the company has raised its profits and dividends every year...
...attention, now, and no giggling in the back rows, please. Raquel Welch, 38, is making a three-hour TV epic called The Legend of Walks Far Woman near Billings, Mont. Raquel plays Ms. Woman, a squaw of Sioux and Blackfoot pedigree whose tale is traced from the 1870s to World War II. She is supposed to race, ride and swim in the movie, but since Raquel can't do these things very well, half a dozen doubles will fill in for her. Here she is acting, with no double in sight...
...reverberates through Discoland, U.S.A., was suddenly muffled. After all, the flamboyant sextet is the ruling clan of that realm; they have sold some 9 million albums and made songs like Macho Man, Y.M.C.A. and In the Navy into nocturnal national anthems. Now the beat goes on, for a onetime back-up singer named Ray Simpson has been promoted to the group, joining Cowboy Randy Jones, Construction Worker David Hodo, Indian Felipe Rose, Motorcyclist Glenn Hughes and G.I. Alex Briley. Simpson came along in perfect 4/4 time: shooting has just begun on the People's first film...
They also seem to say Texas, home of the country's best bootmakers. At 85, Enid Justin, owner of the Nocona Boot Co., remains the feisty matriarch of the Lone-Star State bootmaking community. Back in 1925, when she founded her business, she cut and stitched the boots herself and peddled them all over Texas from her Model A Ford. Today her workers produce 1,500 pairs a day, though it still takes some 200 separate steps to make a single boot. Another oldtimer is T.C. ("Buck") Steiner, 79, a former rodeo star and owner of the Austin-based...
...First Congress proposed the Seventh Amendment, guaranteeing the right to a jury trial "in Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars." But back in 1789 they could never have imagined anything like Memorex...