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Symms didn't help his cause when he speculated in silver futures around the time that Nelson Bunker Hunt was trying his best to bankrupt the Republic; the financial fooling around was especially damaging to his campaign since it turned out Hunt served on Symm's finance committee. And Church's labor support has yet to be eroded by the right-to-work challenger. But the biggest feather in Church's cap may be his seniority--power he has exploited to bring Idahoans enough favors that they will likely return him to Washington, especially since Reagan/Church bumper stickers have cropped...
Jerry Falwell, who professes to be committed to U.S. pluralism, thinks the PAW crusade is mere partisanship. "Norman Lear sees a future threat to what he is doing, to the pornographic television he produces like Mary Hartman and Maude. He used Archie Bunker and Edith for years to demean women, got rich doing it, then gave a big donation to the women's movement. He's just playing games again, and using some liberal theologians for his own devices...
...four months out of a schedule almost as fully packed as he is to star in Yes, Giorgio, a comedy about an Italian singer who falls in love with an American woman. Carol Burnett produced paper and pen for his autograph, Carroll O'Connor emerged from his Archie Bunker to demonstrate a sensitive knowledge of opera, and Grant, using the word that any Cary impersonator can deliver, told Pavarotti the film would be "terrific." Luciano, sipping Campari and soda, was as excited as the guests. "I didn't sleep all night," he insisted. "These people...
...Hunts revealed in the documents the inner relations of family businesses. Each brother, for example, owns an equal share of Planet Petroleum. But Bunker has 50% of Hunt International Petroleum, which holds valuable oil leases in Canada's Beaufort...
Last week's court papers showed that the Hunts are very generous with each other. Bunker has loaned his son Houston Bunker $7.1 million and his daughter Elizabeth Hunt Carnes $61.9 million. Among the brothers, the financial transactions were staggering: Bunker loaned Lamar $11 million and Herbert $23 million, while Herbert loaned Bunker $13 million and Lamar $17.5 million...