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...billion) decided to lop off its unprofitable Woolco discount stores and to pull out of Britain. Next, Woolworth Chairman Edward Gibbons, 63, died suddenly in October. Then Bruce Allbright, 54, whom Gibbons had hired just one year earlier to run Woolco and the U.S. Woolworth stores, returned to Dayton Hudson Corp. Finally, the upheaval at Woolworth reached a climax last week when its highly regarded president, Richard Anderson, 47, also walked out the door. He was immediately replaced by Harold Sells, 54, who had been senior vice president...
...Hutcheson 1982 Dayton Gloves Boxer Xenia, Ohio
...president: "We looked for those routes that were underserved, where there was a need for flights." New territory opened up as the big trunk airlines cut small-volume flights to such Midwestern cities as Grand Rapids, Flint, Toledo and Fort Wayne. Last July Piedmont inaugurated its second hub at Dayton. Says Howard: "Those service-devastated Midwestern cities form the heart of our new service...
...ultimate hope of every spinal cord-injury victim is that crippled limbs will work again. That dream seems tantalizingly close for a 22-year-old paraplegic in Dayton. Using a computer-based locomotion system, Nan Davis, a senior at Wright State University, recently stood up in front of television news cameras, took half a dozen halting strides and said with a laugh, "One small step for mankind." Davis has been paralyzed from the rib cage down as a result of an auto crash in 1978, on the night of her high school graduation...
...results, however, are more than a little misleading. For one thing, the conquerors of the megaspenders were forced into extraordinary outlays. Democrat Mark White spent $5 million to turn Clements out of the Texas Governor's chair, and Republican David Durenberger shelled out $3.5 million to beat back Dayton's Senate challenge in Minnesota. Moreover, lavish spending did buy some offices. Democratic Businessman Frank Lautenberg concedes he could never have upset Republican Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick for a New Jersey Senate seat if he had not spent $3.25 million to Fenwick's $1.4 million...