Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brunei fears that Malaysia might be tempted to make a play for such wealth. Thus the present sultan and his father, Omar Ali Saifuddin, who abdicated in 1967 in favor of his son but remains a power behind the throne, have steadfastly insisted that the British stay...
...Fisk Harrah, 66, founder of two of Nevada's largest casinos, who built a fortune by stressing that nothing in the management of gambling be left to chance; after an operation for an aortal aneurysm; in Rochester, Minn. Harrah got his start in the 1930s by buying his father's failing bingo parlor in Venice, Calif., for $500; ever after, he catered to the small-time player. At both his Reno and Lake Tahoe gaming resorts, Harrah used computers to track daily profits and detect betting-table swindles. He also hired guards to watch for cheaters from high...
Miller began developing that blend early. When he was an infant, his storekeeper father moved the family from Bill's birthplace of Sapulpa, Okla., to Borger, a Texas Panhandle town so new that it had no jail; prisoners were chained to a log. Says Miller: "It was a life of Depression, Dust Bowl and frontier. But that environment creates strong individuals...
...awesome step. For all her on-court panache and off-court sophistication, she was very young-and now she was quite alone. Navratilova probably can never return to her homeland, and Czech officials have refused to allow her parents to visit her in the West. (An appeal by her father, a factory economist, for permission to go to Wimbledon was turned down...
...beautiful full sound." Principal cellist with the Pittsburgh Symphony under André Previn, Rosen was elated by his second-time-around victory. "Before, I was examining the style of others," he said. "This time, I was much more intense, concentrated." He began playing the cello at six when his father, an amateur violist, and his mother, a pianist, started their son practicing in hopes of gaming an addition to their family chamber group. At 13, he made his debut with a symphony orchestra in Redlands, Calif., and began studying with Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky...