Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Leroy R. Grumman, 87, self-assured, no-frills mechanical engineer and aeronautical designer who turned his Long Island-based aircraft-repair shop, started in 1929 with $32,000, into one of the country's largest defense contractors (1981 sales: $1.95 billion); in Manhasset, N.Y. During World War II Grumman Hellcats, Wildcats and Avengers chalked up 60% of the enemy kills on the Pacific front. Grumman's company was working on the lunar excursion module when, in 1966, diabetic and almost blind, the avid ex-pilot retired as board chairman...
Steve's of Somerville wasn't just an ice cream shop. It was a Fine Institution. "History was made, served and spooned there," a 1981 Time cover story noted. Steve Herrel and his merry band of ice cream makers made your journey worth while, bestowing upon you succulent flavors and tasty...
...situation is even grimmer for merchants on the American side, where Mexican customers can no longer afford to shop with their devalued pesos. The stores of south El Paso, just across from Juárez, are almost deserted. "All our business came from Mexico," says Frank Roches, owner of Palace Jewelry. "They have no money now." Business is off 65% at the S.E.I. Fed Mart department store in the California border town of Calexico, and Owner Sergio Farias has laid off 180 of his 230 employees...
...years Shigeru Okada reigned as the powerful president of Mitsukoshi, Japan's oldest and most prestigious department-store chain. The company, which grew from a modest kimono shop, founded in 1673, to a $2.4 billion concern, now has 15 branches in Japan and others in London, Paris, Rome, New York and elsewhere. But Okada seemed to have a most un-Japanese habit: he was unwilling to take responsibility for his actions, in both his professional and his private life. Last week Okada's personal flamboyance and his involvement in a series of embarrassing scandals caught up with...
...enter through a building that is already a symbol of the center: an 18-story geosphere called Spaceship Earth. Inside they are whisked along a track to view a depiction of man's evolution in communications from cave to spaceship, glimpsing such wonders as Gutenberg's print shop, an Audio-Animatronic Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone, and astronauts at work...