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DIED. Meyer Lansky, 81, Florida-based mobster long regarded as the financial genius of U.S. organized crime; of cancer; in Miami Beach. Graduate of a Prohibition-era gang, the Russian-born Lansky became a top adviser to Mafia Leader Lucky Luciano. He later held the gambling franchise for Havana and...
"We want to capture an attractive decor, reflective of the community," says Joseph P. Tagliente, owner of Cambridge's only Burger King franchise, located on Concord Ave. near the Cambridge-Belmont town line.
His other holdings, which the FBI estimates at $28 million, excluding his interest in the De Lorean Motor Co. (DMC), form a motley portfolio. Since 1973 he has owned 1½% of the New York Yankees. For a decade he had owned a piece of the San Diego Chargers football franchise...
As for free agency, and its promised million-dollar pot of gold at the end of the option year, it does not work in football. When the game's stellar running back, Chicago's Walter Payton, offered his services to other N.F.L. teams last year, there were no...
Almost since the day it made off with Milwaukee's franchise in 1966, Atlanta has been one of the depressed areas of the major leagues. Though the first season brought out a million and a half customers, attendance had fallen to 534,672 by 1975. Then the entrepreneurial yachtsman...