Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current issue of the Exceptional Parent, Allan's father, William Schenkein, writes a tribute to his son. Patiently, Schenkein and his wife Selma taught him to feed, dress and look after himself and sent him to special day schools where he learned the rudiments of reading, writing and arithmetic. Now Allan travels alone by public bus to a simple job doing light factory work in a Denver agency for the retarded. More important, he has become a "sturdy, happy, friendly, cooperative person with a good sense of humor, good manners and a good sense of responsibility...
...bookings are running three times as high as last year. At that rate, Holiday Inns should have little trouble topping last year's after-tax earnings of $42 million on revenues of $708 million. This total greatly understates all the money that is spent in Holiday Inns. The parent company owns about one-fifth of the motels in the chain and gets all their revenues. Beyond that, it collects royalties from the rest of the motels, which are the property of franchisees, many of whom have become millionaires...
...complete with World War I flying decor, wing emblems, portraits of Rickenbacker and Von Richthofen, and a muted sound track of planes landing and taking off. Though franchisees are free to get their equipment anywhere, most choose to avoid the bother of shopping around and buy from the parent company. Last year the products division sold $133 million worth of goods to its own inns and those of rival motel chains, as well as to hotels. Competitors seek expert advice from the division; Billionaire O.K. Ludwig paid it a $250,000 consulting fee for help in planning his Princess Hotel...
...years I have been the parent of a severely retarded girl; for twelve years I have been the parent of an institutionalized child; for 23 years I have been working for the benefit of all retarded children...
Died. Dr. Felix Marti-Ibanez, 60, psychiatrist and medical-journal publisher; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A prominent public-health official in Spain during the '30s, Marti-Ibanez fled the country after the Civil War and immigrated to the U.S. In 1950 he founded M.D. Publications, Inc., parent company for a variety of medical publications (Antibiotics and Chemotherapy, Antibiotic Medicine...