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DIED. Ray Kroc, 81, founder of golden-arched McDonald's Corp. (1982 sales: $7.8 billion) and owner of baseball's San Diego Padres; of heart failure; in San Diego. Kroc, a milkshake-machine salesman, bought franchise rights to a California burger stand called McDonald's and in 1955 launched a fast-food empire that now numbers 7,000 restaurants worldwide...
Colby Chandler, 58, is in "a time between eras" and requires "a clear vision of the road ahead." A genial man who wears a Ronald McDonald wristwatch and drives a pickup truck, Chandler has his eye on new, nonfilm technologies like picture-recording optical discs. Says Brenda Landry, an analyst with Morgan Stanley: "In a nutshell, Kodak is attempting to become a major participant in the emerging new forms of image making...
...special congressional election in Georgia, however, simply being a woman-and a widow-was not enough to win. Ultralight Democratic Congressman Lawrence McDonald, chairman of the John Birch Society, died on Korean Air Lines Flight 007. His wife Kathy, 34, believed that the Soviets deliberately "assassinated" McDonald, and ran to serve out his fifth term. But moderate Democrat George ("Buddy") Darden trounced her, 59% to 41%. The national New Right tried but then despaired of helping Kathy McDonald. "To be perfectly candid," said Paul Weyrich, director of the right-wing Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, "they...
...cleverly conceived. Yet their incredible number makes difficult for the audience to absorb their opinion significant. All of the following appear at some point on the at some point on the two-levelled stage, shopping carts rifles, Mickey Mouse masks, a bathtub, a television, Twinkies, a refrigerator filled with McDonald's food and beer, walkie-talkie, larger than-life-sized photo stills, a microphone, a campers, a bare lightbulb, a Brown Bruins hat, a piano, a vacuum cleaner, a coffin and--last but not least--water guns. The costumes, which range from the several green aforementioned t-shirts to cheerleader...
Thirty schools will he represented at Lehigh, with seven runners from each team. In addition to Rippy, Harvard will be sending Paul Gompers, Andy Gerkin, Brace Weber, Cliff Sheehan, Peter Jelley and Jini McDonald. Although the harriers finished third in the Heptagonals two weeks ago, they have a realistic chance to win a berth in the NCAA finals next week...