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Though his teammates call him "Franny" (short for "the franchise"), LaFontaine is modest about his celebrity. "Playing in the Olympics is a dream come true," he says. After Sarajevo, LaFontaine will join the four-time Stanley Cup-winning Islanders; he could thus follow in Morrow's skatesteps as that...
DIED. Ray Kroc, 81, founder of golden-arched McDonald's Corp. (1982 sales: $7.8 billion) and owner of baseball's San Diego Padres; of heart failure; in San Diego. Kroc, a milkshake-machine salesman, bought franchise rights to a California burger stand called McDonald's and in...
Jean Laughlin, manager of the Harvard Square location, agreed. "It's just new management and [Steve's] will continue to be a franchise operation."
But he will continue building the legendary franchise of which he has been the architect for half his life.
Under the proposal, City Manager Robert W. Healy would review all the bids, municipal and private, and would award the city-franchise to the company giving the best offer.