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...look at the fund's real estate mess frightened away Lomas & Nettleton, a Dallas real estate financing company that had been invited in as a comanager. Among the hundreds of obligations are loans to owners of race tracks, jai-alai frontons, boat slips, tennis courts and a $5 million mortgage on Ohio's Cathedral of Tomorrow, whose minister, Sawdust Evangelist Rex Humbard, likes to exhort: "You'd better straighten out and fly right with God." Last year $52 million was on loan to parties-in-interest," meaning institutions or individuals who have business or fiduciary relations with...
Waves of revulsion and loathing swept over me while I was reading your article on the Mafia [May 16]. I personally feel guilty patronizing a vending machine while millions of good citizens run to the race tracks, dog tracks, jai alai, etc., with their tongues hanging out for a piece of the action. If only people had enough sense and decency to boycott all Mafia enterprises...
...bombardment. "I have been aware of it since I was aware of anything," says a young businessman whose parents lived through the attack. "For years we were not allowed to talk about it. They gave us more football and more pelota [the game known in the U.S. as jai alai] and more toros [bulls], so we would forget it. But we haven't." In the Restaurante
...during the bombardment. He took pictures the next day in the smoke and the rubble, 48 hours before the Nationalists occupied the town. In 1970 he sneaked a mineral-water bottle filled with pure alcohol into the San Sebastian fronton, where Franco was attending an international jai alai tournament. Elosegi doused himself with alcohol, set it afire, and jumped into the arena from the second balcony, shouting, "Cora Euzkadi Askatuta!" (long live the free Basque country) and "Guernica, Guernica...
...blew all your pocket change on cocoa butter, jai-lai, and trans-Florida pizza runs, you'll have to settle for Cheap Trills, a violin, guitar, mandolin and bass quartet, hits the Winthrop JCR Saturday at 8:30 p.m. For $1.50 you can find out if Winthrop hits back...