Word: pickups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...wife Betty have lived here for 17 years and raised six kids, packing them off to school in nearby towns. In a community where no one is in charge, Braswell takes it upon himself to maintain the big Q sign on Q mountain. "A while ago, I filled my pickup with 4-H kids, drove up there and poured whitewash over the Q. Got to go up there again." Like everything else in town, his business is geared toward an older clientele. "Ninety-five percent of the people who eat here have dentures. We serve bread pudding, oatmeal, mashed potatoes...
...America's richest man? Forbes magazine says he is Sam Walton, 71, of Bentonville, Ark., the folksy, pickup-driving founder of Wal-Mart Stores (1988 sales: $20.8 billion). Last October the magazine estimated Walton's wealth at $6.7 billion. Forget about it, says Institutional Investor, noting that a portion of Walton's wealth is shared with four grown children. In its May issue the financial monthly says the richest man in the U.S. is Ronald Perelman, 46, of New York City, who has amassed a personal fortune of $5 billion in a mere ten years by assembling companies in businesses...
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...