Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hugh Best (Red Hot & Blue). The largest landholders of this pride of peers, the King-Kleberg clan, at one point owned 13 million acres around the world, though, as Nelson Bunker Hunt observed, "a billion dollars isn't what it used to be." Among other renowned Texas aristocrats: Fort Worth's Perry Richardson Bass and Son Sid, and Houston's Roy Cullen III, oilmen; and Dallas' William Walter Caruth and Fort Worth's Anne Windfohr Phillips, landowners...
Commanding officers rave about the better class of recruits coming in. Says Major General Theodore Jenes Jr., the commander of Colorado's Fort Carson Army post: "The quality we're seeing is going up at an astounding rate. The new kids are easy to train. They have a better sense that the world is a pretty dangerous place and that somebody's got to defend all those things that we believe in." The days of a judge telling a miscreant to join the Army or go to jail are over. "We won't take...
...never will. IGBE filed for bankruptcy last week after being charged with "civil theft" and ordered by a Florida judge to halt operations. Thousands of customers from around the U.S. had complained about not receiving their metals, leading to investigations by the Florida attorney general's office, the Fort Lauderdale police, the FBI and the Postal Service. IGBE's attorney, Thomas Tew, estimates that 25,000 customers are owed more than $10 million. He admits chances of their being paid are "remote...
Investigators are unsure what happened to all the money that IGBE took in, but some of it seems to have paid for high living. Says Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Stephen Raabe: "The brothers would think nothing of paying $10,000 for a private Learjet to fly to the West Coast. They were living a jet-set life with lots of cars and women around." Things sometimes got rowdy. On one occasion, a girlfriend wrecked William's Lincoln Mark VI after an argument...
William Alderdice promised last week to "do everything in our power to get the gold and silver to the customers," but he admitted that he had no firm tally of his company's debts. When William Leonard, a court-appointed attorney, opened the vault at IGBE's Fort Lauderdale headquarters he found that "like Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard, it was bare." Or almost bare. Leonard did find a small adding machine and a few wooden blocks painted to look like gold bars...