Word: franchisee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long before there was a Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes in France, Journalist Franchise Giroud, editor of the left-leaning weekly, L 'Express, had been championing-as well as living -the life-style of an emancipated woman. A divorcee, Giroud, 57, has repeatedly spoken out for women's...
The arrival of the W.F.L., just eleven months after it was first proposed, can be credited to Gary Davidson, a handsome lawyer who has made a career out of playing David to the Goliath establishments of sport. Before organizing the W.F.L., he put together the American Basketball Association and the...
He is also audacious. Almost before he had completed organization of the A.B.A., Davidson turned his attention to hockey. Though he had never seen a hockey game in his life, he went to work rounding up owners for a new twelve-team league. When the Miami franchise started to buckle...
Though no one muttered "Yes, but would you want your sister to marry one?", delegates to the League of Women Voters' national convention had some second thoughts last week before finally deciding, 969 to 433, to admit-of all creatures-men as full participants. The 155,000-member league...
Only in the Ohio Democratic Senate primary did the predicted pattern hold up. At stake was nomination for the seat vacated by Republican William Saxbe when he became U.S. Attorney General. Millionaire Businessman Howard Metzenbaum, 56, serving temporarily by appointment, was challenged by John Glenn, 52, the retired astronaut and...