Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reelers and 52 feature films, she played the kind of waifs and orphans and ingenues who broke America's heart. And after Mary Pickford married Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in 1920 at the peak of her career, they reigned at "Pickfair" for ten idyllic years, entertaining foreign royals. But behind the simper, Mary, who went into show business at the age of four, possessed the brain of a Harvard Business School graduate. In Sweetheart, the first full-length biography of Pickford, published this week, Author Robert Windeler tots up Mary's present fortune to more than $50 million...
Worldwide sales of Volkswagenwerk AG have slumped 21.6% so far this year, and officials openly predict that the company in 1974 will suffer the first full-year loss in its history. (Profits in 1973 were $40 million; at their peak in 1966 they totaled $151 million.) Last week Volkswagen closed down most of its West German plants and gave 45,000 workers a two-week furlough with partial...
Political Influence. Two weeks ago, the trial hit its emotional peak when Minnesota Deputy Attorney General Byron Starns read notes that supposedly were made during a Reserve board meeting in 1971. The notes, purportedly written by Armco Steel Vice President Harry Holiday Jr., indicated that Reserve and its parent companies had tried to use their political influence in Minnesota and Washington to keep the case out of court. Judge Lord was shocked. "If what is represented in this document is taking place every day in the lives of the corporations of our country," he said, "then I fear...
...Army-Harvard match-ups, which have a rich heritage filled with last-minute victories, should this year be decided in the running events. Army is the one team that should be able to offset the Crimson's incredible field advantage, and in all likelihood a peak at the mile-relay tape should reveal tomorrow's winner...
...unit is so swank that it travels with the show, hence the limited engagement), 1972 tour, a lot of fast numbers, no dumb shots of the audience, Music Hall, through Tuesday, 7:30, five and a half bucks, no reserved seats, available at Ticketron but going fast. Clearly a peak experience...