Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handiest extra man on an exceedingly deep team that chanced to lose just one home game this interminable season. Bostonians are poised to measure Bird, Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, Dennis Johnson, Danny Ainge and company against any club of memory or mythology, from Chamberlain's Philadelphia 76ers and Willis Reed's New York Knicks, to the Bob Cousy, Frank Ramsey and Sam Jones Celtics of more than two decades back...
...University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 300 students demonstrated against the regents' refusal to grant an honorary degree to jailed South African Black Leader Nelson Mandela; later, new graduates listened politely to U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's persuasions for peace on earth. At Haverford College near Philadelphia, former Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis doffed his academic hood and rejected an honorary degree after 28 faculty members protested his handling of the air controllers' strike five years ago. At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, by contrast, Julius ("Dr. J") Erving, 36, pro basketball star and onetime college dropout, proudly...
Well, there were at least 40, maybe even 50, at a Philadelphia gig a few weeks back. This represents an encouraging rise over the attendance in Richmond three days earlier. "We played to only about 25 to 30 people there," says Kurt Neumann, 24, the band's electric guitarist who goes by the name of Beau BoDean. Truly, things are looking...
...that they had not had all of the opportunities as the male undergraduates, most of them took their status at Radcliffe for granted. "I didn't feel like a second-class citizen, but I think I was," says Mary Catherine Bateson '61. Virginia Rogers Patterson '61, who lives in Philadelphia and has raised five children, agrees: "We were used to being second string...
...swift growth has come largely through acquisitions. Last year, for example, GM bought Norwest Mortgage of Minneapolis and Philadelphia's Colonial Mortgage group for $335 million. That made GMAC the nation's second-largest mortgage lender, with $22 billion in commercial and home loans on its books. Also in 1985, Chrysler acquired E.F. Hutton's commercial lending subsidiary for $125 million, and Ford paid $493 million for San Francisco-based First Nationwide Financial Corp., the holding company for the eighth-largest savings and loan...