Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last two years David Rowinsky, the owner of Rowinsky's cake shop on Mt. Auburn St., has bet $25 that no one can have one of his five-pound cheesecakes and eat it in one hour...
FINE performances in the rest of the cast match the skill in the title roles. Paul Redford is brilliant as Andrey Prozorov, the brother and owner of the estate, whose dream of becoming a university professor is frustrated by a tragic marriage to the bourgeois Natasha (Grace Shohet). Redford skillfully makes the transition from idealistic brother to alienated bitter council member. He epitomizes Andrey's awkwardness in his shuffling, hesitant walk and bursts of speech. And Shohet is deliciously annoying as the pushy, vulgar Natasha, who does nothing but drool--loudly--about her children...
...courageous act," said Harold Blumberg, executive director of Boston's n. American Jewish Committee. "A bold and desperate gamble," wrote the Miami Herald. Said Ted Bonda, an Ohio Democrat and former owner of the Cleveland Indians: "He's put his and the country's prestige on the line," As Jimmy Carter left for the Middle East, Americans by the hundreds phoned the White House, not to voice approval or disapproval but simply to wish the President good luck. There was at first a general assumption that he had received assurances from Israel and Egypt that his trip...
...named as defendants are Uni Oil Inc. of Texas and three of its executives: President Thomas M. Hajecate, his father Thomas H. Hajecate, who is secretary-treasurer of the company, and Vice President Charles Akin. Charges were also filed against James Fisher, a former Uni vice president and part owner of Armada Oil Co., as well as against Ball Marketing Enterprise of Lafayette, La., and one of its oil brokers, Charles Goss. All who have commented have said they will plead not guilty. If convicted, they could be sentenced to as much as 20 years in prison...
...story of the Circus Maximillian (pun)--billed as "the second greatest show on earth" (joke)suffering from a case of low net profits (bad pun). Its owner, Maximillian Bucks (get it), decides to save the big top from a flop by having his star performer, Natalie Yellowbird, star in an extravaganza in honor of President Wilson. Throw in a Wall Street broker who embezzles $1 million from his secretary, a detective hot on their trail and a chorus of circus clones and, well, the plot thickens...