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Wendy's, founded in Columbus only a decade ago, is a highly successful upstart. Its distinctive outlets, with their Gay Nineties decor, have been popping up all over the country. Last year alone Wendy's opened 502 units, bringing the total to 1,400. One result: the company's earnings surged 56%, to $23.2 million, on sales of $783 million. Even so, analysts say, average sales advances in Wendy's shops have slowed in recent months, and they expect that deceleration to continue. Still, Wendy's intends to stick with its limited line of hamburgers...
Symbolism is important on papal visits, and John Paul's first stopover was the Dominican Republic, the island where the Catholic evangelization of Latin America began. Here the first missionaries to the Americas recited Mass in 1494 during Columbus' second voyage, and here were built the first cathedral and convent in the Western Hemisphere. At the airport, the white-clad Pontiff knelt to kiss the ground. Unexpectedly, four U.S. Cardinals were there to greet him. After a motorcade he celebrated Mass at the main square of Santo Domingo for a crowd of 300,000 or more...
...cabana on a white sand tropical beach; neither fixed agenda nor formal briefings; swimming and sunbathing amid purple bougainvillaea and orange hibiscus. This was the new look of summitry as Jimmy Carter met for two days last week on the fashionable resort island of Guadeloupe-a spot that Christopher Columbus originally named Cannibal Island-with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, British Prime Minister James Callaghan and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. But the informal and even sybaritic setting of the French island belied the gravity of the issues that the four leaders confronted during their summit...
...autocrat of Ohio State football for 28 years, was fired after assaulting an opposing player. Sadly, the incident that ended his remarkable career in disgrace surprised virtually no one who was familiar with Woody. "Hayes had become a caricature of himself," said Max Brown, editor of the Columbus Monthly in the home city of Ohio State. "He was deteriorating in front of everyone's eyes. What happened was inevitable...
...came from Asia via Alaska, and the Norwegians, Danes and Irish appear to have found their way to our eastern coast about the year A.D. 1000. If they discovered America, nobody knew it. Now, with the land full of people and automobiles, those who are here by reason of Columbus' notable discovery are telling us that Columbus did not discover America...