Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts," says Fuller. Like a peripatetic preacher, he makes his folksy "theology of the hammer" spiels to audiences all over the world, trying to tap into what he contends is "an incredible reservoir of goodwill out there...
...stump, the messenger is as entertaining as his message is fervid. Fuller, 53, is an Ichabod Crane look-alike who is incessantly joking, cajoling, commoving, pressing, pleading for Habitat. He leans and swaggers, hunches his shoulders, pokes his head and forms grandfather spiders with his lean hands, which are constantly aswirl. He still crows about the sales pitch he made to former President Jimmy Carter: "I said to him, 'Sir, are you interested in Habitat for Humanity, or are you very interested?' " Since 1984 Carter has been one of Habitat's celebrity supporters, along with Bob Hope, Paul Newman...
...interested in Habitat. In the U.S. a typical Habitat home is a no-frills, 1,000-sq.-ft., three-bedroom residence that sells for about $28,000. Habitat homeowners usually make $150 or so monthly mortgage payments -- which is sometimes less than the rent they paid for indecent housing. Fuller often reminds Habitat affiliates, "The houses we build should be a joy to the people, not a burden on their backs...
...affiliates, ranging in size from the one in New York City to one in Coahoma, Miss. (pop. 351), which plans to replace the town's entire housing stock. There are 38 college chapters and 68 Habitat affiliates overseas. All told, 4,000 homes have been built since 1976. Boasts Fuller: "It's clear to me that we are seeing the birth of a movement...
...Fuller's energy was not always so well directed. By the time he entered law school at the University of Alabama, Fuller and a college chum had a business partnership that was churning out moneymaking schemes. By the time he had made his million, he was a workaholic, and his health was suffering. His wife Linda left home one day, announcing that she was off to decide whether she wanted to continue being wed to a man who was married to his business...