Word: guests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seekers, this one hoping for a job, that one requesting reprieve from a parking ticket. So popular is Duarte among the people that a Sunday open house at the Casa Presidencial in June drew a crowd of 3,000. The President, characteristically, insisted on posing for photos with each guest. When that proved too time consuming, he posed with them in pairs, then groups of ten, then delegations of several hundred. The photo session still took four hours, and Duarte stayed until all the visitors had been snapped...
...terms of the Southland (7-Eleven) Corp.'s $1.2 million gift, every medal-winning Olympian was allowed to invite one guest on the caravan, and their choices were telling. Jeff Blatnick, the nation's most renowned Greco-Roman wrestler, asked Andrew Saris, the last man cut from the squad. Mary Lou Retton, whose gymnastics career required her to leave home two years ago, reached back to Follansbee, W. Va., for her old friend Lori Lombardi. Cyclist Steve Hegg's neighbor Doug Huffman used to pace him tirelessly in Dana Point, Calif. They went together to the parade...
When Mark McCormack, a well-known business manager of sports figures and a self-made millionaire, gave guest lectures at Harvard Business School in the late 1960s, he sensed in the students' questions an academic naivete about business. He thought they needed "street smarts." Now McCormack has helped out by writing What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School (Bantam; $15.95), a potpourri of tips for anyone who works for a company, runs one or wants...
...cruise-ship guides point it out as the place where Walter Mondale has his roots. Although nearly all Mondale's relatives left for the U.S. 130 years ago, the name evokes considerable civic pride. At the Mundal Hotel, where Mondale stayed in 1979, Manager Billie Orheim displays a guest book that reads, "Joan and I were thrilled to return home...
...duel to see who could remember more of William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis. First Poulson would deliver a line or two, and then Telling. Long after Poulison had given up, Telling was still reciting the 81 line poem. He should certainly know the poem by Edgar A. Guest that graced the cover of the 1934 fall-winter Sears catalog. The last stanza...