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Environmental concerns were overshadowed last month when Vernon Hamilton, a leader of C.U.T.'s Cosmic Honor Guard security force, was arrested in Spokane while driving a pickup truck carrying illegally obtained weapons. The find that day included seven large-caliber semiautomatic rifles, five assault rifles, $26,000 in cash and gold coins, and plans for the arming of 200 people...
Texas is a state where men are men and good ole boys don't so much drive pickup trucks as aim them. And they don't cotton to being thought of as sissies. Somehow, the state highway commission failed to take that into account when it announced that the license plates on Texas' 13.5 million vehicles would henceforth carry not only a border of -- ugh! -- baby blue but also a limp slogan, THE FRIENDSHIP STATE...
Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), next to Lowell House, is the center of Harvard's recreational activities, including swimming, aerobics and Nautilus, and the MAC also hosts the best pickup basketball games in Cambridge...
February 20: Comedian Bill Murray turns in a 1-1 record in 3-on-3 pickup ball with the women's basketball team...
There is nothing folksy about Perelman. His favored car is a chauffeur- driven Bentley, and he has never owned a pickup. And if he is indeed the fattest of the fat cats, he didn't exactly start from scratch. He began sitting in on board meetings of Belmont Industries, his family's $300 million Philadelphia conglomerate, at age 11. At 35, Perelman got restless, moved to New York City and started collecting his own companies. Beginning with a chain of jewelry stores, he added MacAndrews & Forbes, a producer of licorice extract, in 1979. Then, with the help of financing provided...