Word: texan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texan, of course. Who else could head a small investment group that loses $1 billion on paper in a single day and still has perhaps $2 billion left after that? A Saudi, maybe, and in fact there were three Saudi Arabian colleagues plus a Brazilian. But their leader, the man who shook the world's commodities markets and almost caused a financial panic last week, is an archetypal Texas wheeler-dealer, Nelson Bunker Hunt...
After 13½ months of nonstop campaigning, spending $11 million and winning only one delegate, Ada Mills, 67, from Clarksville, Ark., former Texas Governor John Connally last week withdrew from the Republican presidential race. TIME National Political Correspondent John Stacks traveled with Connally during the last week of the Texan's campaign. His report...
...place we've really worked." To support his cause, Connally enlisted two of the state's most popular and powerful politicians: former Governor James Edwards and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond. In particular, Thurmond was campaigning for Connally as though his own career were at stake. With the Texan at his side, Thurmond was at a Du Pont plant gate in Camden at 7:30 one morning last week, buttonholing arriving workers, draping an arm around each and whispering confidingly, "He's a mighty good man. Speak a good word...
Wendy Carle, another Quincy House senior with a warm, unassuming manner, is a different kind of basketball player. A relative newcomer to the sport, Carle's natural athletic ability and determination have enabled the quiet Texan to rise above the average varsity hoopster...
...product exists both on and off the screen: a soft-spoken Texan in a Savile Row suit, easygoing in a down-home country way and clearly in a big hurry, an adopted Easterner who has polished his background instead of forgetting it. The son of a pipeline worker and a waitress, Rather grew up in Houston and played end on his high school football team, hoping to win an athletic scholarship when he graduated. The only place interested enough to take a look was Sam Houston State Teachers College. Rather's mother cashed in two $25 savings bonds...