Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some human beings are gifted with perfect pitch, others with total recall. Ben Skora can hand-build just about anything, without benefit of blueprint. A high school dropout, one-time recording company owner, Skora has for the past 30 years helped pay the rent by treating drug, drinking and other behavioral problem cases with hypnosis. But he admits to a life-long addiction of his own: gadgets. One historic day six years ago, he repaired to his garage with an armload of automobile power-window assemblies and second-hand refrigerator motors worth about $2,000 at the junkyard. Three years...
Many snatches of American vernacular rise out of an implied belief in the mystical properties of names. To say that someone's "name is mud" is figuratively to eradicate the owner. An American speaking of the crux or essence of any pursuit will probably say "That's the name of the game." Obviously, James Russell Lowell was onto something when he wrote that "there is more force in names than most men dream...
After the police discovered the burglary, the store's owner, Harry Levinson, did little to help their investigation. Griped a detective on the case: "He was the most uncooperative victim I've ever seen." But Levinson happened to be acquainted with a prominent figure in a different sort of enforcement business, Big Tuna. Levinson complained, according to a police informant, about his misfortune. For reasons of his own, Big Tuna sympathized. An order soon went out from River Forest: return the swag. The gang reluctantly obeyed, handing over the loot to Accardo who, police and FBI officials believe, kept...
...saving, waiting for the proverbial rainy day that invariably follows a period of rising prices. But the consumer seems to be becoming more like a Latin American, who spends out of fear that he had better buy it now or it will only cost more tomorrow. Says Marvin Brenner, owner of the Casual Village women's clothing chain in New Orleans: "People know that there will be another minimum wage hike in January, and it will cause wages to go up all along the line. The minimum wage very quickly affects clothing prices, so people are buying in large part...
Once the class act of baseball, the New York Yankees have fallen on ugly times. For nearly two years, Owner George Steinbrenner, Manager Billy Martin and Outfielder Reggie Jackson have presided over one of the tackier chapters in the sport's history. Together the Cuisinart blades of their egos have produced an almost daily puree of spite, envy and innuendo. In the process, they have transformed baseball's proudest franchise into a synonym for small-minded rancor. Last week one of them, Billy Martin, exited, temporarily, from the one job he always wanted in baseball. Question: Did he fall...