Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first night after the students moved in, their sponsor's cousin died of a heroin overdose. The second night, a security guard trying to break up a block party was stabbed outside of the apartments; he used the students' phone to call an ambulance...
Violence at the housing project also kept the volunteers on edge all summer. The first night after the students moved in, Singleton's cousin died of a heroin overdose. The second night, a security guard trying to break up a block party was stabbed outside of the apartment; he used the students' phone to call an ambulance...
Howard Hughes'cousin tackles a tangled financial empire...
...lipped smile and the soft Texas accent. William R. Lummis, 51, is almost a double for the middle-aged Howard R. Hughes Jr., the eccentric billionaire who died on April 5, 1976, aboard a jet that was flying him from Acapulco to his native Houston. Lummis, Hughes' first cousin, is now standing in as head of most Hughes enterprises, a chaotic financial empire once estimated to be worth $2.3 billion. Lummis last week took another major step toward straightening out the family business when he sold Hughes Airwest, the West Coast carrier, to Republic Airlines for $38.5 million...
Ironically, Lummis (pronounced Luhmiss) did not even know Hughes, who lived the last 15 years of his life in seclusion and deprivation. A partner in one of Houston's most prestigious law firms, Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, Lummis saw his cousin alive only twice, the second time when Lummis was nine years old. Four years ago, when he went to the Texas Medical Center to claim Hughes' body, Lummis was shown an ugly, wasted corpse and had to ask with consternation, "Is this Mr. Hughes?" When it became apparent that Hughes had died without leaving a will, Lummis...