Word: forde
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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...
...packed up and drove away. "It was the best advice Lynn ever gave me," he says of the episode, "though she was shocked when I told her I had taken it." Using the $1,300 he received in severance pay from Phillips' profit- $ sharing plan, Pickens bought a 1955 Ford station wagon large enough to hold his exploration gear...
Porter, a Rhodes Scholar from Brigham Young University, was a White House Fellow from 1974 to 1975 and then went to work for Vice-President Ford. After the resignation of President Nixon, he followed Ford to the White House and helped develop economic policy. He came to Harvard in 1976 and received his doctorate before joining the faculty of the Kennedy School as an associate professor
...second point is easier to refute, simply by virtue of its absurdity. Harvard's sale of stock in corporations which do any part of their business in South Africa (and the bulk of the firms under discussion, including IBM, GM, Ford, and ITT, do a minuscule amount of business there) will be welcomed gladly by a myriad of investors around the world, who will snap up the stocks and never consider the moral heinousness of apartheid. And South Africa itself would like nothing better than to have all stock in companies operating within its borders owned by silent and uncaring...
Fanatical about keeping his life private, Ford is known as one of the hardest interviews in Hollywood. He refuses even to say what kinds of cars he drives. "I drive a red car and I drive a black car," he reluctantly admits. "But that's all I want to say, more or less. It's too personal." He is building --which is to say he is actually constructing--a house in the Santa Monica Mountains for himself and his second wife Melissa Mathison, who wrote the screenplay for E.T. He also has a hideaway someplace in Wyoming...