Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expanded to employees of a number of Ford Motor suppliers. These included U.S. Steel Corp., the Budd Co., the Kenyon & Eckhardt and J. Walter Thompson advertising agencies. The first contractor to be investigated was Diner's/Fugazy Travel and Incentive Inc., which is headed by William Fugazy Sr., a close friend of lacocca...
...location for a television remake of Broadway's 1940 success, The Corn Is Green, Hepburn is cast as the indefatigable Miss Moffat, a sturdy spinster who moves to a Welsh mining town and opens a school. The man in the director's chair is close friend George Cukor, 79, the grand old master who guided Hepburn through nine previous films. For the crew it's an ideal summer frolic amidst flint hedges and yellow gladioli, and it leads to a little pastoral reflection. Says Hepburn: "First God made England, Ireland and Scotland. That's when...
MARRIED. Mickey Rooney, 57, pint-size powerhouse actor whose film career began when he was five as a cigar-chomping troublemaker on two-reelers and later led to television stardom; and Janice Darlene Chamberlin, 39, a singer and writer, and close friend of four years; he for the eighth time, she for the second; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Confided the bride about her new husband: "Mickey believes so much in the institution of marriage that I can't disappoint...
...enough. The photo of a smiling black woman swathed in chains was even worse. But the final straw was the June 8 poster of a scantily clad prostitute proffering the wares of her trade. When that picture ran on the cover of Stern, West Germany's largest illustrated weekly (close to 2 million in circulation), ten feminists demanded a court order barring the magazine from depicting women as "mere sex objects." Insulting one woman, they charged, is insulting them...
...beginning, he championed Fitzgerald when the young author's work was considered too daring to print. Near the close of his life, the editor nudged James Jones down the thin red line that led to From Here to Eternity. Once he sensed the presence of talent, Perkins thought no burden too great if it would help an author produce a worthy novel. While suggesting possible improvements to one writer, he spun out a letter 30 pages long. He managed finances, patched up family troubles, soothed egos and never complained about the demands made on his patience and energy...