Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruburbs offer an alternative to the retirement meccas where senior citizens shuffleboard toward the inevitable, surrounded only by mirror images of their decline. Seniors on fixed incomes stay young in the ruburbs by mingling with children and young adults. When Sears Executive Dick Klein, 66, and his wife retired to Cloverdale, Calif., 93 miles north of San Francisco, they expected to visit the city at least twice a month. He rarely gets there twice a year. He is too involved in the local Lions and the Boosters and is a passionate follower of the Eagles basketball team. Says Douglas Rankin...
...holds him together." As a consequence, he is desperately afraid of losing her. "All the time I knew she was going to leave me," says William, the Atlanta birthday-party batterer. "She liked to play the song Slip Away, and I knew she was going to do it." Explains Dick Bathrick, a clinical psychologist who with a colleague runs the only program for wife abusers in Georgia: "The husband is trying to make her be closer to him by controlling her physically?and he doesn't realize that he's driving her away...
Another company squeezed by IBM is Vector Graphic (fiscal 1983 sales: $33.6 million). Admits Dick Hahn, a senior vice president: "When IBM came into the market it took a lot of business that we had." Sales fell $2.5 million in 1982, and a $2.4 million profit turned into a $3 million loss. One-quarter of the company's 400-person work force has been laid...
...Madeleine Nash/Urbana-Champaign and Dick Thompson/San Francisco, with other bureaus
...blues with timeless authority. And to celebrate his 40th year as a performer of jazz and soul, 500 of Charles' friends and fellow musicians showed up at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. The result is Ray Charles, a Man and His Soul, a TV special that Producer Dick Clark is syndicating nationally in September. Among those who sang Charles' praises: Glen Campbell, Lou Rawls and, by recorded message, Stevie Wonder, who was pretaped doing an old Charles hit slightly reworked into Hallelujah, I Love Ray So. Tears and cheers are the hallmark finish to such show...