Word: illness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distinguished 34-year tenure as conductor-for- life. With a curt, 17-line note to West Berlin's new culture minister Anke Martiny, the Salzburg-born Karajan, 81, severed his often troubled relationship with an orchestra widely regarded as the finest in the world. The reason given was ill health, but to an even greater extent Karajan was bowing to pressure from both his restive orchestra and the West Berlin senate...
...increasing popularity, however, may drive it into the rough. "I see a trend toward people without sufficient education about the game of golf who have little respect for it or for other people on the course," says Dean Lind, the golf pro who operates the municipal course in Wilmette, Ill. Result: the average time required to play an 18-hole course often shoots up from less than four hours to five hours or more. Other players do not seem to understand that golfing is meant to get them away from the office. "There is nothing as disturbing as hearing...
Club fees have jumped as well -- although nowhere near the staggering levels paid in golf-crazy Japan (the most expensive: $2.5 million for the Koganei Country Club near Tokyo). In Highland Park, Ill., for example, initiation fees at the Exmoor Country Club have risen from $8,000 to $25,000 in the past five years. Memberships at some private clubs in the Los Angeles area cost more than $50,000, and $2,500 annually thereafter. But so far, golf aficionados are willing to pay those prices. Fore...
...SALE: Continental Regency Hotel in Peoria, Ill. A city landmark with 333 rooms. Needs work. Anxious owner asks just $4 million...
...savings and loan associations and commercial banks. President Bush's plan to bail out the S & L industry, which won Senate approval last week by a vote of 91 to 8 and now faces House consideration, calls for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to take over some 400 hopelessly ill thrifts and sell off their real estate in the next few years. During this huge liquidation the Government will hawk everything from office towers to condominiums, sewage plants to gravel pits, shopping malls to single-family homes...