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...tradition as old as the Republic, some officials regarded Government service as a splendid opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies. Victor Thompson, president of the Synthetic Fuels Corp., resigned after disclosures that he had sought help for his private bank from a Texas oilman who was doing business with the Government corporation...
...Sinai peninsula, then racked up more profits by speculating in the wildly bullish Tel Aviv stock market of that period. Sofer today maintains a suite in the Jerusalem Hilton, which he bought in 1982 for $18 million in partnership with a group of U.S. investors, among them Fort Worth Oilman Louis Barnett. The SEC claims that Sofer shared his illegal stock tips with Barnett and another friend, Michael Jesselson, whose father Ludwig Jesselson is the founder of Philip Bros., the U.S. commodity-trading house. So far, neither American has been charged...
...deal so big and racy that it could inspire a screenplay. The 74-year-old pink-and-green landmark has been sold at auction by the feuding family of Wall Street's most notorious insider trader, Ivan Boesky. The buyer: Tycoon Marvin Davis. The secretive Denver oilman, 61, submitted the winning bid of about $135 million to Boesky's wife Seema and her sister Muriel Slatkin. The sisters have not spoken in years, partly because Seema, who held 52% of the property, and Ivan refused Muriel a private table at the Polo Lounge, the hotel's celebrity watering hole...
...wagon train has slowly been making its way around the state--some 40 mule-drawn and horse-drawn wagons escorted by horsemen. Its 3,000-mile progress, traversing a hugely diverse geography, dramatizes the complexity of Texas. The state cannot be contained in one image: the cowboy, or the oilman, say. Geographically, climatically, economically, sociologically, Texas is at least five different entities: 1) east Texas, with its piney woods and swamps and large black population, a territory like the Old South; 2) south Texas, with its enormous Hispanic population, a borderland as much Mexican as American; 3) West Texas, arid...
...editorial the Detroit News argued that Michigan needed higher oil prices "like a hole in the head," and charged that Bush had emerged as a "traditional Republican Daddy Oilbucks." The flap made Bush look almost like a shill for oil producers (he is a former Texas oilman). Said David Keene, who helped run Bush's 1980 campaign and is now a consultant to Dole's political-action committee: "This is the most serious error he's made since becoming Vice President." At his press conference President Reagan tried to aid his Veep, insisting, "We're saying the same thing." Perhaps...