Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...organizations either participating in this weekend's rally or lending their support, divisions have inevitably begun to appear. Notably absent on June 12, for instance, will be representatives of the Washington, D.C.-based Ground Zero, which has done much to stir national concern over nuclear arms. Explains Founder Roger Molander: "We are trying to maintain our character as an educational organization, not a political organization or advocacy group...
...adventures of the Safeway chain in branching, out into "an upscale gourmet food store" (complete with a grand opening at which members of the San Francisco Symphony played chamber music) and scrutinized an enterprising New York retailer who launched an "all-kosher superstore" for Passover. Supermarket Insights Co-Founder Paul Reuter reports such success that his company has already fielded a new video magazine, Health and Beauty Aids Insights. It will be strictly nuts-and-bolts stuff, however. Charney's Videofashion Monthly, with lots of quick clips of swirling models, distracted designers and discofied fashion shows, has already cornered...
...well-publicized disciplinary policies regarding two progressive theologians, West Germany's Hans Küng and the Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx of The Netherlands, has probably slowed down the forward momentum, in the eyes of non-Catholic liberals, at least. Says W.A. Visser 't Hooft, 81, co-founder of the World Council of Churches: "Let's face it. The Pope remains a theological conservative. There are great differences between his image and reality. In a way, KRAFT the church is still scared by its own courage at Vatican...
...Hitler has gone down in history as the personification of evil, Mussolini has won his own immortality as the archetypal thug. But the founder of Fascism was a complex thug who could never make up his mind whether he wanted to be a fearsome breaker of the peace, like his neighbor to the north, or a geopolitical showman, the P.T. Barnum of international politics. Judging from Denis Mack Smith's study, by far the more solid and persuasive of these two new biographies, the Duce (chief) was a bit of both...
DIED. Max Stern, 83, founder and board chairman of Hartz Mountain Corp., which he made into the world's largest manufacturer of pet foods and supplies; in New York City. Stern, a German immigrant, arrived in the U.S. in 1926 with 2,100 singing canaries. He quickly sold the birds, but decided that greater profits lay in marketing birdseed. The company, founded in 1932, grew under his leadership until it had annual sales of $150 million and offered more than 1,200 pet-related products. A deeply religious man, Stern gave away millions in philanthropy to Jewish American education...