Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Travolta clan has not yet become the Barrymores of Bergen County it will not be for want of the firm support and encouragement of Helen ("a very sensitive, giving woman," says Johnny) and Sam ("a very gentle, sensitive man") Travolta. Sam played semipro football and baseball, worked in the tire business to keep the family dreams within reach. Helen, who was one of the Sunshine Sisters on Hackensack radio during the '30s, joined a local stock company after she married Sam. "She was a great, great actress," Sam says. Adds Helen: "They used to compare me with Barbara Stanwyck...
...tried to take command in the middle rounds, and for a time the old magic blinked on. In the champion's corner, Trainer Angelo Dundee had noticed that Spinks' early bobbing and weaving had degenerated into an amateur's dangerously upright stance as the young challenger appeared to tire. "This is it," Dundee told Ali before the 10th round. "He's ready to fall. This round, champ, this round. Go get him! Hit him! Take...
...tire kickers are kicking, gently, about less car for more money...
...beat in Hollywood, but his subjects were presumably still tough: Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood. "Covering illusion, I suspect, is going to be just as confusing as reporting reality," says Willwerth. Part of the confusion came from spending a few days with Reynolds. The flashy-flip, skirt-chasing, tire-burning macho hero of Semi-Tough, and a score of other cinematic excursions, proved to be a "semi-shy, urbane homebody." It turns out that the fast cars, wine and women are just an act on screen. Reynolds does drive a Rolls-Royce, but at the speed limit, and is going...
Redec, a holding company, now controls much of the lucrative construction business in Saudi Arabia. It also owns pharmaceutical, tire-recapping, steel fabricating and drinking water-bottling plants. Together with an Italian company, it is dredging parts of the Suez Canal. In 1976 Redec's revenues were more than $1 billion. Apart from his banking interests, Pharaon owns a substantial share of International Systems, a modular-housing firm in Mobile, Ala., and is the largest shareholder in Sam P. Wallace Co., a Dallas-based mechanical contracting firm...