Word: bunkerism
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When Billy Cleary talks about hockey, he is opinionated. Not Archie Bunker opinionated, but the intelligent kind of opinionated that comes from years of experience in every facet of the game and an understanding of most every subtlety and intricacy it can offer. When Billy Cleary talks about hockey, everyone listens. People respect him. His players respect Billy Cleary, too. They respect him as a hockey mind, yes, but also as their teacher. Not just the teacher of power plays, but of life. The Harvard hockey club likes Cleary. One freshman even used the word "love...
...Bunker Hunt, as friends call him, is one of ten children of Texas Oil Billionaire H.L. Hunt. Bunker inherited millions and a penchant for controversy from his father, who before his death in 1974 promoted far-right political causes and crawling as an exercise. The family could be a model for the Swings on TV's Dallas. Bunker leads the six children from his father's first marriage in business deals and feuds with the four children of the patriarch's second family...
...Bunker and Herbert were tried in federal court on charges of having tapped the phones of their father's business associates as part of an alleged attempt to stop him from bequeathing too much to the last four heirs. The two brothers were acquitted, although a pair of private detectives working for them went to jail. A federal judge ruled 2% years ago that the same brothers and five of their children had illegally exceeded the limits on purchases on the nation's soybean market. Bunker also directs first-family control of Hunt International Resources Corp...
...Bunker Hunt ventured into silver in 1973 after Libya nationalized his 8-million-acre oil holdings. Says Hunt: "Silver looked safer than overseas oil concessions the way things were going. And precious metals were a good hedge against paper money." In late 1973, when the price was around $3 an oz., Bunker and Herbert went into silver Texas-style, buying an estimated 35 million oz. of silver futures. The brothers waged a bitter fight in 1977 to buy control of Sunshine Mining Co., which owns the nation's largest silver mine. In a rare defeat, their offer was rebuffed...
...Bunker Hunt has also used his silver touch on horse breeding. He reputedly owns more thoroughbreds than anyone else in the world; 600 horses wear his light and dark green racing silks. Exceller, a horse he bought for $25,000, later earned more than $1.5 million in prize money. After Hunt became the first American to win both the French and English derbies, in 1976, Baron Guy de Rothschild, president of the French Breeders Association, restricted many French races to horses bred in European Community countries...