Word: foundered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Synanon 's founder is arrested
Late one afternoon, about 30 Arizona and California law officers descended on a sparsely developed section of Lake Havasu City, Ariz. Their quarry was Charles ("Chuck") Dederich, 65, the founder of Synanon, who was wanted in connection with an attempt in October to murder Los Angeles Attorney Paul Morantz with a rattlesnake hidden in his mail box. The officers found Dederich at home. Said Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney John Watson: "He was in a stupor, staring straight ahead, with an empty bottle of Chivas Regal in front of him." Because his physical condition did not permit...
...commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Although free on $100,000 bail, Dederich remains hospitalized. His attorney, Thomas Thinnes, argued that Dederich was "in no condition to return to California because he needs medical attention." Thinnes says that he has been told by doctors that the Synanon founder has a drinking problem, suffers from a heart ailment and obesity and is in a deep depression. Last week Dederich's wife Regina and daughter Cecelia Jason filed a petition in Mohave County Superior Court stating that he is an "incapacitated person" and asking for guardianship...
...every type of retail outlet, from the most exclusive department stores and beauty salons to the most crowded discount houses (it is even test-selling a few products in supermarkets). Equally important, it has survived triumphantly the moment of maximum danger for a cosmetics company: the death of the founder. The test came four years ago with the terminal illness of Charles Revson, a free-spending, profane, tyrannical but occasionally lovable entrepreneur who had built Revlon largely...
Times changed; New Times did not. Last week George A. Hirsch, the magazine's founder and publisher, announced that publication would be suspended at year's end.*Officials at MCA Inc., the Los Angeles-based entertainment conglomerate (Jaws, Airport 77) that bought New Times from Hirsch and other investors last year, said they were willing to keep the magazine going, but Hirsch found the outlook hopeless. Though circulation climbed from an initial 100,000 to today's 355,000 and advertising gained after a slow start, New Times never had enough of either to be consistently profitable...