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...stores. On the cards were two rows of dots, and contestants had to scratch them off to reveal the number of field goals and touchdowns scored in a particular football game. The grand prize was a trip valued at $20,000 for eight to the Super Bowl in a Learjet...
...Mondale was on the phone to the also-rans, Ferraro slipped out a side door of the St. Francis Hotel and was whisked into a waiting car; Kyros jumped in a block away from his stakeout post in front of a department store. At Oakland Airport, they boarded a Learjet owned by Tom Rosenberg, Mondale's Illinois Finance Chairman, who had been asked by Johnson that afternoon to have the plane flown to San Francisco. Ferraro, chatting with Rosenberg and Kyros on the flight to Anoka airport, a small field about ten miles from North Oaks, remarked that she felt...
Conceived by William Lear, who designed the successful Learjet, the fuel-efficient 2100 is made of so-called composite materials that are lighter than the aluminum in standard aircraft. After Lear's death in 1978, his widow Moya tried to finish the plane, but financial troubles forced her to give up control to a group of investors led by Denver Oilman Bob Burch. He expects an FAA go-ahead by February and hopes to rehire the workers. But Belfast is bedeviled by doubts about whether the Lear Fan will ever be airborne...
...additional problem of getting the film to New York City. A French-made Gazelle helicopter and two Yugoslav pilots sped the film from the slopes where the skiing events were held to the Sarajevo airport, 20 miles away. There a courier took the film on a chartered Learjet to London and by Concorde to New York City. One day the airport was closed, so Frey and TIME's Yugoslav driver, Jovan Vučkoviċ, set off on a hair-raising ride over winding, snow-covered mountain roads to Mostar, 84 miles away, where the Learjet waited. Says Frey...
Next to racquetball, playing poker and flying in his Learjet, there are few pastimes that Texas Oilman T. Boone Pickens Jr., 55, enjoys more than swooping down on vulnerable companies and giving their managers the willies. During the past 16 months, Pickens has earned $105.7 million for his company, Mesa Petroleum, by buying up large amounts of undervalued stocks and selling them at a handsome profit, sometimes back to the company whose stock he bought. Early this year, for example, he bought a large stake in Superior Oil, then in September sold it back to Superior for a $31.8 million...