Word: sons
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...son adds this: "O.K., take out a sheet of paper; we'll see who read the assignment last night...
...city that, in effect, he had campaigned against, decrying the nation's capital as the symbol of the Big Government dragon that he was so determined to slay. But when the President-elect flew in last week, Washington warmed to him as though he were a native son, mainly because he came not as a conquering hero but as a man with natural poise and an instinct for the gracious touch that seemed to dazzle almost everyone he met. The fact that Reagan did things so matter-of-factly simply added to his appeal. Not in all his years...
...takes pride in advisory posts he holds at the Stanford Research Institute and Rockefeller University. Three of his four children have U.S. degrees and his third wife, Mary Padikis Olayan, once a secretary for Aramco, is American. Now that his only son, Khaled, 32, is running the Saudi companies, Olayan appears to be concentrating on the U.S. economy to provide his business with a long-enduring international dimension...
...son of a spice merchant, Olayan (pronounced o-la-yan) started work in 1937 as a dispatcher for an organization that became the Arabian American Oil Co. and used his excellent English, learned in high school in Bahrain, to make himself invaluable. In time he was negotiating land rights for Aramco and accompanying its resident boss on visits to the Saudi royal court. In 1947, when Aramco began a major pipeline project, Olayan was asked to become a contractor. He mortgaged his house for $8,000, bought four trucks...
DIED. Victor Sen Yung, 65, San Francisco-born actor who played the "No. 1 Son" of Movie Sleuth Charlie Chan in the 1930s and 1940s and later was noted for his role as the cook Hop Sing on the long-running TV series Bonanza; of suffocation; in North Hollywood, Calif...