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...Lone Star's board, Wilson is chipped from the same block as Gene Germany. Born in the Louisiana oilfields, Wilson got a law degree at Tulane. taught oil and gas law there until he was lured away to run a se ries of small oil companies. An avid collector of hunting rifles, Wilson relaxes by taking potshots at Texas' innumerable jack rabbits. "He must shoot thousands of them every year," says a friend. "He does it to keep his eye in practice...
...vigil or prayer that took place during the hour-long bus ride must have succeeded, for the rain did cease to let an overcast sky light the festivities of the dap. The avid golfers immediately took off for the dark green slopes, while some warm-blooded youngsters headed for the outdoor pool. The liquor tent, however, with its 16 bartenders, kept the rest of the crowd pleasantly relaxed for the remainder of the morning...
Maria Teresa was married to President Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1955, having first met him during a post-college stint as an airline hostess. She speaks fluent English and French, is an avid reader in both languages (favorite authors: Graham Greene, Albert Camus), collects paintings by Bolivian artists, is an enthusiastic theatergoer. She is also the hard-working head of the Costurero del Niño (literally, children's sewing box), a charitable organization that distributed clothes to 50,000 underprivileged children last Christmas. For her three daughters, aged three, five, and seven, who have been given a strict...
...boyhood spent in Oregon led McCord into painting because "painting water-colors somehow goes with the tude of fly-flshing." Since then, he been an avid painter and an enthusi fisherman...
...that he was "philosopher by instinct and politician by duty." He was also a patron of the arts. He played the flute to the accompaniment of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's sons; he wrote indifferent poetry under the tutelage of his sometime friend Voltaire; he was an avid collector of paintings and sculpture. In affairs of state, he was Prussian to the bone, but in painting he admired what was foreign...