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...Angeles Dodgers defeated the Houston Astros, 4-3, yesterday, so the two teams finish the regular season tied in the National League West. Joe Niekro (9-12) will pitch for the Astros against Dave Goltz (7-10) in today's one-game playoff in Los Angeles...
Elsewhere, the Baltimore Colts beat the Miami Dolphins, 30-17; the Green Bay Packers edged the Cincinnati Bengals, 14-9; the Denver Broncos trimmed the Cleveland Browns, 19-16; the Pittsburgh Steelers downed the Minnesota Vikings, 23-17; the Seattle Seahawks surprised the Houston Oilers, 26-7; the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Washington Redskins, 24-14; the Los Angeles Rams outscored the San Francisco 49ers, 48-26, and the Dallas Cowboys whipped the New York Giants...
...gangling walk, the tight-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...
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...
British, French, Japanese and other foreign investors in the past decade have steadily bought control of 77 U.S. banks. The initial targets were usually small, often ailing institutions like Main Bank in Houston. Not any longer. Last summer Britain's Midland Bank unveiled a plan to buy California's Crocker National Bank, the nation's 14th largest (assets:$16 billion). In the past two years, overseas investors have also grabbed such multibillion-dollar banks as New York's Marine Midland and California's Union Bank. Some lawmakers say that the buying binge has gone...