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...soft spots. To a group of grocery workers in Compton, Calif., he portrayed Reagan as the friend of the rich, and tried hard to show his own indignation. "I'm mad. I'm angry. I'm damn mad," he insisted, looking pained. But speaking in Cupertino, Calif., the day before, Reagan had simply scoffed at "that pack of pessimists roaming the land" and turned up his red-white-and-blue rhetoric. He was able to inspire the crowds with slogans and phrases that would sound hokey from others. "Let's make America great again...
...four. A survey of millionaires by two professors at the University of Georgia showed that the most frequently held credit card in that group is not American Express or Diners Club but the Sears card. One of the first customers of the financial center at the Sears store in Cupertino, Calif., in the heart of the Silicon Valley, was a man who opened a $ 1.9 million account at Dean Witter Reynolds, the stockbroker that Sears bought in 1981. At the other end of the scale, a third of American households earning less than $10,000 are Sears customers too. Sears...
...paid his way through college working as a dishwasher and waiter in Lake Tahoe casinos. Hwang gained business experience by running a 7-Eleven store in San Jose, Calif., and then in 1975 used his savings of $9,000 to start making video games in his Cupertino, Calif., garage...
Directing the developments at Apple is Sculley, 44, who in April was lured away from a job as president of Pepsi-Cola with an offer of $2 million for his first year at work. Sculley has been arriving at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif, as early as 7:30 some mornings and setting a pace that many of the young executives have had trouble maintaining. Though he occasionally discards his preppie suits for open-necked shirts and rumpled slacks, he has been trying to instill discipline and induce a streak of humility in an organization where confidence bordered on arrogance...
...Queen and Prince Philip will spend much of their time on more serious excursions. Philip is fascinated by technology, and they will visit the Rockwell International plant in Los Angeles, where the Queen could take a giddy ride in the shuttle flight simulator. In Cupertino, unofficial capital of Silicon Valley, they will tour the Hewlett-Packard plant and watch white-suited workers make micro chips. In San Diego, while the Queen peruses the Old Globe Theater, Philip will talk to the animals at the city's famed zoo. In order to ensure that the caged beasts growl...