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...dissident shareholders trying to take control of the company he founded in the 1920s, then nursed into a group of nut stores that became Chock Full O' Nuts Corp. The company evolved into a chain of counter-service restaurants, mostly in New York City. But the biggest chunk of its fiscal 1982 sales of $116 million came from its "heavenly coffee," sold nationally under Chock Full's label and promoted in saccharine TV commercials by Black's third wife, Page, who looks fiftyish...
...gaily colored restaurant every noon and night. Such enthusiasm for Mexican dining was once largely confined to the Southwest, but now Chi-Chi's and other aggressive chains are sweeping through the heartland like modern conquistadors. With moderate prices and robust fare, they are capturing an ever growing chunk of the American dining-out dollar. Mexican-style eateries gulped down a hearty $3 billion in revenues last year, or nearly 4% of total U.S. restaurant sales. They bit off only $1 billion as recently as 1977, by contrast, and accounted for less than 2% of spending for away-from...
...enough to make the people of Wethersfield, Conn., look skyward and ask the heavens: Why pick on us? For the second time in eleven years, a local family experienced a shock from space: a meteorite crashing through the roof. This time a 6-lb. extraterrestrial chunk, plummeting about 1,000 m.p.h., smashed through the ceiling of the home of Wanda and Robert Donahue as they were watching M*A*S*H on television. The rock landed under the dining room table and no one was injured. In April 1971, a 12½-oz. meteorite ripped into a Wethersfield home about...
WHEN LENNON was shot two years ago in December, a significant chunk of the world, briefly united, mourned. The dream, as Lennon himself had sung all the way back in 1970, was irretrievably over. There would be no more Beatles, no more '60s and no more youth for a generation that shook Western society, and then, unsure what to do next, drifted slowly into complacency. And there would be no joy or provocation from a man who had finally come out of seclusion to face a new decade...
Indeed not, but the Pulitzers at least seem to be fighting over the customary prerogatives: money and child custody. Roxanne, who was unemployed and living in a mobile home before she met Peter in 1974, wants a good chunk of his fortune (he owns citrus groves and hotels). He says he has only $2.5 million; she reckons it to be $25 million. Just her basic living expenses, she claims, will amount to some $246,000 a year. Some prominent items: $25,000 for vacations, $12,000 for entertainment, $18,000 for her clothes, another $18,000 to dress Twins Maclean...