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...occasional caution. But now nine years removed from his two losses in 65 fights, to Philadelphians Willie ("the Worm") Monroe and Bobby ("Boogaloo") Watts, the champion has finally turned the public corner at 30, after coming down that bravest street in boxing, where Stanley Ketchel, Harry Greb, Tony Zale, Rocky Graziano, Jake LaMotta, Sugar Ray Robinson and all the veterans of middleweight wars hang out. The usual lopsided faces congregated again last week in Las Vegas, not just for the big fight but for LaMotta's sixth wedding. Jake is 0 and 5. In the middle of the ceremony...
DIED. MORRIS BERNARD ZALE, 93, retailer; in Dallas. Born into poverty in Russia, Zale grew prosperous mass-marketing jewelry in America through his string of 1,200 Zale's stores, where credit lines and other come-ons sold luxury to the less affluent...
...also accelerated a wave of firings that can only be attributed to longer-term structural changes, including a drastic shakeout in industries that were overbuilt in the 1970s and '80s. Among the worst hit is retailing, which is undergoing a painful adjustment to the frugal '90s. Just last week Zale, the largest U.S. jewelry-store operator, said it would close 400 of its 2,000 stores and lay off 2,500 workers. "We are looking at the historic restructuring of the American economy," says Dan Lacey, an Ohio- based employment consultant. "It's not just decline; it's turmoil. Even...
Among the first institutions to offer in-house day care were hospitals, which adopted it to help alleviate the nurse shortage. Many other types of firms are following the example. Zale, the jewelry-store chain, last April opened a modernistic, low-slung $300,000 center at its Irving, Texas, headquarters in which a staff of eleven oversees up to 85 children from six weeks to six years of age. At the Matthews, N.C., headquarters of PCA International, an operator of portrait galleries, about 120 children attend a center that costs the company more than $130,000 a year to operate...
Sometimes two fighters come together in a clinch, and no one can break them. They are connected forever, hyphenated. Dempsey-Tunney. Graziano-Zale. They end up with one name. They end up, pretty much, with each other. Back in gyms and rings last week, refusing to go away-that is, stay away-Ali-Frazier is having a hard time ending...