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...Republican Party. Perry has found strength among conservative Christian Republicans, while Hutchison gets high marks from urban Republicans, many of them female, plus independents. And Hutchison's move is forcing some of the party's major financial backers to choose sides, among them several important Perry backers - including Houston beer distributor John Nau and Dallas oilman Louis Beecherl - who have switched their allegiance to Hutchison. Well-known Texas personalities, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach and movie star Chuck Norris have also donated to the Senator's exploratory committee. (See George W. Bush's top 10 YouTube moments...
Could Motown have supported and saved Marvin Gaye during his low period? Sheila Moore, HOUSTON...
...temperas are in major American museums, from Manhattan's Met and Modern to Houston's Museum of Fine Arts.* His shows are thronged: 247,800 people went to a month-long Wyeth show in Buffalo last year. Last summer, when President Kennedy picked a painter to be among the first winners of the Medal of Freedom-the U.S.'s highest civilian honor-it was quite inevitable that the choice would be Wyeth. A fortnight ago, President Johnson presented it to him with a citation declaring that "he has in the great humanist tradition illuminated and clarified...
...Michelle's real image that will most likely set the tone for her time in the White House. "She's got an independent streak in her, and she radiates strength and Americana," says Evelyn Gorman, a retailer from Houston, Texas. "It's been a long time since we've had that. She is going to set the tone on a global scale...
Minnesotan Brian Becker, who was already on probation for deer-smuggling in Oklahoma, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison in November. Agents estimated that he had made at least $300,000 smuggling deer to one client in Texas. Houston businessman Robert Eichenaur was sentenced to 18 months in jail and hit with a $50,000 fine. Eichenaur was described by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as the owner of a "posh hunting ranch" in the small east Texas town of Bedias. The ranch, Circle E, advertises exotic hunts and charges $12,000 or more for a large white...