Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more exuberant by the recollection that the paper has repeatedly seemed likely to die. A money loser, the Times was shut down for a year in 1978 and 1979 by striking craft workers, who opposed the installation of modern technology. In October 1980, faced with mounting deficits, then Owner Lord Thomson said he would fold the Times unless he found a buyer within five months. When he found one, his choice seemed to much of the staff, and to many of the Times's top-drawer readers, a fate worse than death: Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, proprietor...
DIED. Rudd Weatherwax, 77, flamboyant owner and trainer of the original Lassie and six subsequent Wonder Dogs; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. In 1940 he and his brother Frank took on an unwanted collie named Pal, which was selected first as a stand-in and then as star of Lassie Come Home (1943). Weatherwax also trained Asta for the Thin Man movies and Daisy for the Blondie series. Devoted to his charges, he kept the cremated remains of bygone Lassies, once vowing, "When I finally go, I'm gonna take those urns and bury them with...
...Four seat cushions valued at $180 were taken from a Thayer dorm room between 12 a.m. and 10 a.m. last Tuesday. The cushions were stolen while the owner was asleep in the room...
...with an essay on Carohne Norton, an English woman who was separated from her husband after he had beaten her several times Upon being separated Norton discovered to her horror that her husband had the legal right to keep her from secing her children and that he was the owner of any money she inherited of earned These two discoveries led her to crisade against the offending laws...
...route from California to Florida stopped for refueling at the Kleberg County Airport, near Kingsville, Texas. Acting on a tip, U.S. Customs officials searched the aircraft and found nearly $6 million in $100 and $20 bills in the suitcases of one of the passengers. They arrested the owner of the luggage, Francisco Guirola Beeche, 34, a wealthy Salvadoran businessman, and his two companions. Guirola is a friend of Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing Salvadoran politician and foe of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The three men were later indicted in Corpus Christi, Texas, on charges of conspiring to transport undeclared...