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...children of the Cohen family of West Chester, Pa., operate a computerized cleaning business. Lewis and Marlene, both 25, Natalie, 23, and Morris, 15, keep watch over clients' names, schedules and creditworthiness, plus the quirks and odd needs of customers. They also inventory brooms, mops and paper towels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: How to Soup Up a Filing System | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...international competition that challenges the U.S. auto industry today was unknown when lacocca began his career. His father Nicola immigrated to the U.S. from southern Italy in 1902 and eventually built a small auto-rental business in Allentown, Pa., with 33 cars, mostly Fords. Surrounded by Model A's, Son Lido always wanted to work for Ford. After graduating from Lehigh and getting a master's in engineering at Princeton, he joined the company as an engineer in 1946, then quickly switched to a district sales job. By 1970, he had risen so far that only Henry Ford H, grandson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iacocca's Tightrope Act | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...wife Mary, whom he married in 1956, is the daughter of an Irish Catholic plumber. She was a receptionist at a Ford sales office in Chester, Pa., when the couple met at a Ford conference in Philadelphia in 1948. They have two daughters, Lia, 18, a student at a Michigan college, and Kathi, 23, a recent Middlebury (Vt.) College graduate who is a Washington public relations account executive. lacocca and his daughters are close; he usually stays in Kathi's guest bedroom during his frequent trips to the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iacocca's Tightrope Act | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

DIED. Charles ("Rip") Engle, 76, head football coach at Pennsylvania State University from 1950 to 1965 who developed the Nittany Lions into one of the nation's toughest teams (104 victories, 48 defeats, four ties); in Bellefonte, Pa. Engle was constantly worried that he would be "humiliated," even though his Penn State squad never had a losing season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 21, 1983 | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

When Anthony Toto, 37, a pizza-shop owner in Allentown, Pa., put up $50,000 bail for his wife Frances Lenore, the local police and others in the community were stunned. The reason: according to charges filed by the district attorney, Frances had conspired to murder her husband - not once but twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Man | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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