Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cheri I--Dalton St. near Prudential Center--An Unmarried Woman...
Film: Ukranian Institute--"Taras Shevchenko." 7:30 p.m., Science Center D. Free...
...FIFA, or for military juntas seeking wistfully to appear respectable. It is not for journalists, certainly, and perhaps it is not even for wondrously skilled professional players. Soccer's lovely simplicity started with children- a ball, a patch of ground, a few kids - and that is where its center remains...
Kinder-Care is the prodigy of Perry Mendel, 56, a stocky, effusive former real estate developer whom some call the Colonel Sanders of child care. He opened the first center in Montgomery in 1969, pouring in $15,000 of his own money and $185,000 from assorted investors. The company has spread to 23 states, swamping immature competition (La Petite Academies, with 115 units, is a distant second). Kinder-Care is growing almost daily, and two weeks ago, Mendel announced that his company will acquire for stock Living and Learning Centers. Inc., which now operates 33 centers in New England...
...Kinder-Care. As school enrollments dropped, laid-off teachers were quite willing to work for Kinder-Care at the federal minimum of $2.65 an hour. Forty percent of Mendel's 2.300 day-care employees are former teachers; many of the rest are housewives in need of extra cash. Center directors receive only $11,000 a year, but Mendel offers them a plum: their kids can attend free...