Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Page remembers that before the sellout Harvard-Yale game he received a call from England that was cut off three times. The caller claimed that there should be an extra ticket because President Johnson, who planned to go to The Game, had decided to stay in Texas...
Take care of yourself and stay in touch. Your friend always, Billy...
Back in Nairobi, young Leakey began rebuilding his neglected safari business and married Margaret Cropper, a young researcher who had been his mother's assistant at Olduvai. But he could not stay away from anthropology. In 1967 he joined an expedition organized by his father to the Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Well before it was over he knew he was ready to strike out on his own. Says Leakey: "I already knew how to organize an expedition and how to find fossils. I wanted to have my own show...
...administrative work at the museum. But he still longs to be out in the field and at every opportunity loads his second wife, the former Meave Epps (his first marriage ended in divorce), and their two small children into his four-seat Cessna and flies out for a short stay at Koobi Fora...
...hear Meyers talk, however, if AMC does stop making cars the move would have to be forced over his dead body. It has long been AMC's claim that it needs to stay with cars to spread its total vehicle production costs and give its dealers more to offer the public. Ironically, in 1970, Meyers opposed AMC's acquisition of the Jeep business, which has turned out to be a large part of the company's salvation; instead, he wanted to concentrate on cars. Today he admits that "Jeep is a gold mine." Although AMC may no longer be able...