Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today, at 250 locations in and near major cities, the green Holiday Inn marquee and the yellow McDonald's arches have company: the red steeple housing a black plastic nonringing bell, the symbol of Alabama-based Kinder-Care Learning Centers, Inc. By offering a service that is safe, uniform and reasonably priced, it has become the largest network of places where parents can deposit offspring for a few liberating hours...
...which also is a major aerospace manufacturer and food processor, is keeping quiet about its postmerger plans, at least until after shareholders of both companies vote in late August or early September to approve the linkup. All LTV has said is that it will not close Youngstown's Indiana Harbor mill, near Chicago, which could feed raw steel to Jones & Laughlin's Hennepin, Ill., processing plant and give the enlarged combine a fully integrated facility in the Middle West. While the two companies are complementary in some ways, they also have redundancies. LTV has promised that the merger...
Beatty is not only the star of Heaven Can Wait but the co-writer (with Elaine May), co-director (with Buck Henry) and producer. Having already produced two smash hits in his only previous tries, Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Shampoo (1975), Beatty must now be regarded as a major film maker as well as a star. "He is really a perfect producer," says Arthur Penn, who directed Bonnie and Clyde. "He makes everyone demand the best of themselves. Warren stays with a picture through editing, mixing and scoring; he plain works harder than anyone else I have ever seen...
...took a year and a half off to work for the '72 Democratic ticket. George McGovern was impressed by his newfound fund raiser's seriousness: "Warren not only cares about issues, but his judgment is very perceptive." Mostly to be available for McGovern, Beatty rejected a number of major films: The Godfather, The Way We Were, The Great Gatsby and The Sting. Once the campaign was over, Beatty got to work producing and starring in Shampoo, a trenchant social comedy about a randy Beverly Hills hairdresser. Its sexual frankness was almost as hotly debated as the violence in Bonnie...
During World War II, the U.S. Government felt that any man healthy enough to run bases was fit enough to fight. The nation drafted or enlisted the best men from both major leagues, then told the teams to play ball. They complied by fielding a collection of players as unsuited for baseball as they were for battle. The old Washington Senators used Bert Shepard, who had one leg; the St. Louis Browns started a one-armed outfielder named Pete Gray. The Cincinnati Reds signed a pitcher who didn't have to worry about being drafted; Joe Nuxhall was only...