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...part of his ongoing research into the way couples choose each other. David M. Buss, assistant professor of psychology, is asking pairs of undergraduates several hundred questions about each other and about themselves...
...Harvard's dreams of an upset soured in the doubles. Mark Basham and Barry Buss quickly downed Adam Beren and Larry Scott, 6-2, 7-6. The other two doubles matches looked promising for Harvard, but a controversial call quickly subdued the under-dogs' hopes...
These days it is a hardship even for the wealthy to build a mansion from the ground up, but they may always acquire one readymade. Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Kings, has recently bought the legendary Pickfair (Will he rename it Bussfare?). It has 22 rooms, which sounds a lot for a bachelor, but big spenders always enjoy an abundance of rooms, even when those rooms have no particular functions...
...about 115 new houses will be constructed in the next five years on the 27-acre estate once owned by Nelson Rockefeller. Though the houses are only 30 ft. apart on the average, and prices start at $457,000,24 of them have already been sold. In California, Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team and the Los Angeles Kings hockey team, paid $5.4 million last month for the 22-room mansion once owned by Movie Star Mary Pickford. Buss estimates that he will have to spend another $1 million sprucing up the place...
Rookie of the year with the Milwaukee Bucks, he earned the first of his five M.V.P. trophies the next year, leading the Bucks to the N.B.A. title. New Laker Owner Jerry Buss renegotiated his contract at the start of the season (an estimated $1 million annually for four years) and acquired three power forwards, among them Starter Jim Chones, to liberate Kareem from the nightly double-teaming and pounding under the boards that had sapped his energy and enthusiasm in the past...