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...grandest money-losing speculations of recent history, and it provided a blunt reminder that even billionaires can get in over their heads. With their dreams of cashing in on last winter's silver boom now transformed into mushrooming debts of $980 million, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar Hunt have been struggling all spring to fend off ruin. Papers on file last week in the Dallas County Courthouse, and elsewhere around the country, showed just how desperate their plight has become, as well as the extent of their fabled wealth...
From the Hunts' far-flung oil and gas leases round the world to Brother Lamar's Rolex watch and even Hunt family office equipment, cattle feeders and watercoolers, nothing escaped the attentive and appraising eye of the bankers. Explained one banker in the style of his trade: "When you've got someone over a barrel, you grab everything...
...Lamar Rushion, 21, watched neighbors take part in the riot but refused to join them. Says he: "My friends liked it.They really enjoyed it. They got some thing out of the looting like some car parts or some clothes. But how far is that going to take them? What are they going to do tomorrow?" Rushion is a high school dropout who works as a baker in downtown Miami and wants to go back to school to study photography. "This thing messed up the whole area," he says. "What little business we had is gone. So now where is everybody...
...tennis team won the consolation division of the Corpus Christi Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament in Corpus Christi, Tex., this weekend. After losing to Witchita State in the first round, the Crimson went on to defeat Illinois State, the University of Oklahoma and Lamar University to take the consolation title...
...Lamar Flatt '83, Harvard's center, said Tuesday he thinks Mu will will be a tough challenger. "I'm definitely going to have my work cut out for me," he added...