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Though Pickens is busy running Mesa, making speeches and hatching future deals, he may also have political ambitions. He found time to attend last summer's Republican National Convention as a delegate and to chair a fund- raising drive for President Reagan. Gerald Ford recently visited with him in Amarillo. One of Beatrice's children now works in the Reagan White House personnel office, and helped organize the youth vote in the last campaign. There has been talk that Pickens might run for Governor of Texas next year. He does not discourage such chatter...
...stimulate effective corporate management." Perhaps the most important result is that Pickens and his fellow raiders have served notice on the leaders of American firms. If they do not manage their companies skillfully, they could find themselves in the middle of a takeover fight with the gambler from Amarillo, or someone like...
Pickens' father, Thomas Boone Pickens Sr., now 86 and living in Amarillo, was an inveterate gambler who made and lost a fortune buying and selling oil ^ leases. He also wagered frequently on college football games. During the depths of the Great Depression, he drove around Holdenville in a dazzling Pierce-Arrow. Recalls Tommy Treadwell, a retired local banker: "Little T- Bone, as his father called him, was so embarrassed about that car that he insisted on being dropped two blocks from school whenever his father drove him there." Pickens' mother, by contrast, was a practical woman who never made snap...
Despite his medium height (5 ft. 8 in.), Pickens was a star guard on the Amarillo High basketball team. During the semifinal round of a state tournament, his shooting helped keep his team in the game, even though he and his teammates were much shorter than the opposition. At the last time-out, Pickens bounded onto a bench and exhorted, "Guys, I think we've got 'em! Just keep playing the way you have been!" Unfortunately for biographers, the final result was a one-point loss...
...work. The search for oil meant days of chasing rumors over dusty back roads in Texas and Oklahoma, and nights bent over maps studying geological strata. In his spare time, Pickens indulged his passion for Gusher, a board game in which players roll dice to look for oil. Says Amarillo Lawyer Wales Madden Jr., an old friend: "It was uncanny. He always won at that darn game...