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...children of working parents. "I'd need $60,000 for the building, installations and the rest," she says. "That translates to about 30% down in today's market and, with an 11%-plus interest rate, it's just an impossible dream." Bernard Zvirman, co-owner of a restaurant-hardware business in Pittsburgh, says, "It is just about impossible for a chef to leave his place of employment and open his own restaurant." With high interest rates piled on top of other costs, he estimates that it now requires $3,000 a seat to open even a modest...
Died. Daniel Reid (Dan) Topping Sr., 61, heir to tin-plate millions and an owner of the New York Yankees for 21 years; of emphysema; in Miami. A topflight amateur golfer in his 20s, Topping bought a piece of the Yankees in 1945, became co-owner and president two years later. He caused major rhubarbs by firing two pillars of the Yankee dynasty, Managers Casey Stengel and Yogi Berra, but won 14 American League pennants before quitting the front office in 1966. Sleek, perennially tanned, Topping was married six times (to Actress Arline Judge and Skater Sonja Henie, among others...
...dollars every year to black, Indian and Mexican-American community groups. He sometimes likes to come on like just another impulsive free-spending jock; actually, he is a shrewd businessman (land development) who just may make good on an ambition to become baseball's first black team owner...
...usual emotional earthquake, though, pits the players against some external adversity. There are a few from which to choose. In Charles O. Finley, the A's have baseball's No. 1 madcap owner and general manager (see box page 64). He is responsible for the team's multiplicity of uniforms-the A's wear various combinations of green and gold during the week and an all-white outfit on Sundays-and its multiplicity of managers (13 in 14 years). Every season Finley issues at least one directive that infuriates the team. Last year he decided...
What irritates the players most is Dark's willing-even eager-subservience to Owner Charles Finley. Early this season when Dark decided to drop the slumping Deron Johnson as designated hitter, Finley called before the game to order otherwise. Dark acknowledges that his reply was, "You're right, Charlie." Last week Johnson was still slumping, hitting...