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...machines. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and ill-fitting pants, gulps coffee, chain-smokes Pall Malls and often totes a Colt .45. "When I was broke, I was crazy; now that I am rich, I am eccentric," he declares. He is about 65 but refuses to confirm it. His motto for summing up his favorite pursuits: "Younger women, faster airplanes and bigger crocodiles." Jones has had five wives, all of whom he married when they were between the ages of 16 and 20. He lives with his current spouse Terri, 23, on his 600-acre Jumbo Lair spread near Ocala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muscle Man: Nautilus is pumping profits | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...favorite motto among Harvard clerical union organizers is "dignity, democracy and a dental plan." But beginning next year, this motto may have to be revised because of a University decision this week to provide an estimated $1-million a year dental insurance coverage for Harvard faculty and staff members...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Harvard's Non-Union Workers Win $1 Million Dental Care Package | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

Campaigning for the presidency in 1980, Reagan supported a return to Volcker's anti-inflationary policy. During the mid-term elections of 1982, when the side effects of the Fed's draconian measures were most pronounced, Reagan's motto was "Stay the Course...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Paul A. Volcker: America's Money Man | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

Even the slogan has been cut back this year. Unlike past years, no clever motto has been created. Instead there is just a big Harvard shield with the number 60 next...

Author: By John N. Rosenthai, | Title: Cashing in on Commencement | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

Treadup's Christian faith suffers in China, but only in the sense that he comes to reject his mission as simply signing up souls for Christ. When he arrives as a young man the motto is "Evangelize the world in this generation." After 40 years of rebellions, war, Japanese internment and Communist revolution, his ambition has shrunk to feeding the few people left in his village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Awakening a Sleeping Giant the Call | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

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