Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everyone I talked to," he says, "told me, 'One thing about covering Boone--you'll enjoy yourself.' And they were absolutely right." Ungeheuer retraced Pickens' life from its beginnings in Holdenville, Okla., to his early days as a geologist and wildcatter in the Southwest's Anadarko Basin, to Denver, Houston, Wall Street and Amarillo, Texas, his present home and headquarters...
...cantor in New York City. After studying philosophy at Princeton, the future raider spent two years in medical school, but quit when he realized that he was not enjoying the work--and becoming a bit of a hypochondriac to boot. After a stint in the Army at Fort Sam Houston, he used a few thousand dollars won in barracks poker games to get started on Wall Street. He made $50,000 in the bull market of 1961, then lost it just as quickly when stocks tumbled. To this day he is wary of investing in the market. Says...
Bank of America fell victim to an elaborate mortgage-securities scam involving overvalued real estate in the Southwest. In one instance, according to charges in a lawsuit filed in Texas, a company run by Southern California Businessman Kent B. Rogers bought three apartment complexes in Houston for about $12 million and hired an appraiser to value them at twice their true worth. Then a Rogers associate bundled the inflated mortgages on the apartments into securities that were sold to savings banks and other investors. Bank of America investigators are looking into why its Inglewood, Calif., branch agreed...
...year-round pastime. Some palefaces like to establish a base tan before going on vacation; others simply prefer the tanning parlor to a trek to the beach. "I used to call in to work sick so that I could lie out in the sun," says Lola Lanza, 41, of Houston. "Now I can just come here on my lunch hour." Jeannie Frazier, 25, who spends $60 a month to cultivate her tan, maintains that a salon is "better than the sun. ( You don't get hot, and you don't get sand all over...
...NOTEBOOK: Steve Armstrong and Smith had the the Crimson's first period scores...The RPI game is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. at Houston Field House in Troy....MacDonald did not improve on his freshman-record 17 goals...The Crimson can clinch home ice in the quarter-finals of the playoffs for certain with a victory or a Yale loss...Captain Brad Kwong enjoyed his first two-point night of the season with a pair of assists...Chalmers had three points, all goals. Crimson, 9-3 at Burlington, Vt. Harvard 2 4 3 --9 Vermont...