Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When you write about this," says Larry Levenson, 41, the amiable co-owner of Plato's, "don't leave out all the material that could make this place look upstanding." Levenson is harassed and sweating profusely. He has 200 couples on hand, a waiting line for lockers, and some prospective orgiasts are edgy because the bar is closed-the result of a court injunction by the state liquor authority. Without booze, he says, "it just takes everyone an hour longer to get all their clothes...
...number of cars, trucks?even a city bus?have been repainted orange, the police must be called out to keep traffic moving on the roads surrounding the Broncos' practice field. But nothing has been upset as much as the city's image of itself and its team. Bronco Co-Owner Gerry Phipps attributes the mania to "a little inferiority complex that people in the city have. It's their way of saying, 'Hey, look...
...legend in Dallas is that Cowboy Owner Clint Murchison bought a computer company solely to complement and exploit his coach's style. Whatever the case, one of the electronic brains was soon harnessed to answer a difficult question: Which young men could play successfully under Landry's byzantine flex defense and multiple offense? At Cowboy headquarters, part of the basement and a full wall upstairs are lined with 1,500 big black ledgers that detail the size, speed, strength and character of every professional football prospect known to man, God and the truly all-seeing and all-knowing: the Cowboys...
Instead, Pharaon presented the transaction as a straight business deal. U.S. banks, he believes, are ideal investments for an absentee owner. "They are very highly regulated and restricted," says Pharaon, and can safely be left to the management of others. The National Bank of Georgia, he asserts, has intrinsic values, like a location in a prime growth area. Moreover, he sees bright days ahead once various federal investigations are concluded. "It is a turnaround situation that comes very quickly and very fast," says Pharaon. "In fact, we foresee in 1978 that the bank will be very handsomely in the black...
...venerable American Home (circ. 2.25 million). In the past few years the 49-year-old magazine confused advertisers with numerous ownership and editorial changes, building up a current deficit of $5 million in the process. After the February issue American Home will be folded into Redbook by the owner of both, the Charter...