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Much of the money came from investors who could ill afford to lose it. St. Michael's Church of Life in Unionville, Conn., sent in $278,000 that its 200 members had set aside for the construction of a new chapel. Patricia Bear, 52, a divorcee who lives in a mobile home in Denison, Texas, is out $46,000. Says she: "I'm in a terrible financial bind. I sent them my life savings, but evidently they are a bunch of crooks...
...Chapel Hill...
...worked from 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. hauling coal and ashes at a power plant. He starred on the debating team, ran on the track squad, made Phi Beta Kappa, but lost his first election: for student-body president. When his oratorical skills took him to a contest in Chapel Hill, N.C., "it was the farthest north I had ever been...
...then and feeling solvent. He had been rich two or three times since he took a bachelor's degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1954, going on to speculate prosperously in land. He speaks wistfully of a period, long ago, when he ran through his money in the sporting houses of Havana. Laying a finger alongside a nose whose veins suggest some past abuse, he allows: "One time, I drank myself broke...
...else. There are journalism professors here who say the Landmark is a personal journal more than a newspaper and should be savored as one man's meat. Brent Hackney, the Governor's press secretary, calls Windsor "Hunter Thompson in bib overalls." And the cable television channel in Chapel Hill has given Windsor a 30-minute talk show on Friday nights, such is his newfound popularity...