Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Omni, a glittering Atlanta complex of offices, swank shops, hotel and ice rink, because the Omni's owners were failing to pay off $90 million in debts. And last week Richard Kattel, boy-wonder chairman of Georgia's largest bank, Citizens and Southern National (assets: $3.5 billion), quit in frustration. His reason: Comptroller of the Currency John G. Heimann, the chief U.S. banking regulator, had just forced C & S to reclassify as questionable an additional $11 million in loans, mostly on real estate. That will convert the skimpy $3.2 million profit that the bank reported...
...project after a visit to a re constructed Iron Age settlement in Lejre, Denmark. From 1,000 volunteers, Percival selected six couples and trained them in Celtic crafts and culture. One couple, with the commune's only children, three boys, braved it for much of the year but quit the experiment several months ago. The others have stayed on, raising crops and livestock, making pottery, cooking Iron Age food and spinning and weaving wool sheared from their own sheep...
...Stravinsky (an album autographed by the master is Warren's "most prized possession"). But the influence of the great composer during Warren's subsequent visits to see him in his home above Sunset Boulevard was supplemented by a rough-and-tumble education at high school. Warren quit when he was 15, around the time his parents split up. He tried living with his father for a while, a difficult situation since Bill "kept moving to a new apartment every few weeks." Warren then headed for New York, taking an unsuccessful shot at "being Bob Dylan. " After a time...
Kaplan only found out two days before the tournament that he would be fencing in the number-one position for Harvard as Bob Tillman, the Crimson's number one throughout the year, quit on Wednesday to work on his thesis...
...takes place at the former hobo's seashore hotel. The fresh air revives the chorus: "Linger in the Lobby" is peppy, sung and danced with a snappiness that doesn't quit till the last bows. In the lobby, the chorus lingers and mingles with larger-than-life-size cutouts of hotel guests, bell-hops and beach umbrellas, all of which give the stage an effective style halfway between art deco and '70s surrealism. None of the flesh and blood lingers in the second act. The cutouts sway and stir as each character dashes madly around. Laurel Leslie, playing Susie...