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...state famed for its wheeler-dealers, few have ever outdealt Roy Marie Hofheinz, 49, smooth-talking ex-mayor of Houston, who operates in oil, radio (Corpus Christi), TV (Houston), real estate and sports. Teaming up with Oilman R. E. ("Bob") Smith, Hofheinz recently plunked down $4,940,000 to buy from Hilton Hotels Corp. 494 acres of undeveloped land near downtown Houston. No sooner had they taken title than Hofheinz and Smith gave 29½ of their new acres to the state for a throughway right of way, agreed to sell 180 acres to the county at cost to complete...
...Tower appealed only to bona fide Republicans, he would have had less chance than a snowball in Corpus Christi. But many conservative Democrats voted for him-partly in protest against Democrat John Kennedy, partly because Tower seemed to be a more vigorous conservative than Bill Blakley. Liberal Democrats also voted for Tower-for different reasons. With Blakley out, much more federal patronage will go to the liberals' darling in Washington, Senator Ralph Yarborough (who pointedly did not endorse Blakley). More important, Tower's victory was certain to hasten the coming of a true two-party system in Texas...
...shirts. ("Underwear," explains Jesse Unruh, "was just something to waste money on.") As a teenager, Jesse made his way to Los Angeles, got a job as a riveter at Douglas Aircraft. During World War II he served in Texas and the Aleutians as a Navy metalsmith, married a Corpus Christi teacher. Back in Los Angeles after the war, Unruh went to U.S.C., working nights in the aircraft plants to support his growing family (they now have five children). On campus he developed an insatiable appetite for politics, dabbled in ultraliberal causes. "The Communists," he recalls, "rushed me like they were...
Cooper will go to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics for a bachelor's degree. Gudeman plans to study Social Anthropology at King's College, Cambridge...
...Newcomers: Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, Los Angeles-Long Beach, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Peoria, Akron, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Asheville, Corpus Christi, Flint, Grand Rapids, Knoxville, Louisville, Mobile, Newark, New Brunswick-Perth Amboy, Portland, Ore., Savannah, Tacoma, Toledo, Trenton, Worcester, and York...